Chicago native and law professor Craig Futterman founded the University of Chicago's Civil Rights and Police Accountability Clinic, the first of its kind in the nation, in a trashed out apartment in Stateway Gardens, then one of Chicago's most troubled public housing projects.
He and his students have since sued the Chicago Police Department and the City winning civil rights suits on behalf of residents for police kidnapping, planting evidence, filing false charges and menacing a project resident with a running chain saw.
Recently his law suit forced the release of the Laquan McDonald video, which the police and Mayor Rahm Emanuel had tried to suppress from the public for over a year, that forced the Cook County States Attorney to charge police officer Jason Van Dyke with first degree murder.
He speaks about his research into and work in ending police impunity and the need to address the structural problems damaging and killing youth of color by changing the character of policing. He thinks there is a chance to do so based on models he has seen enacted else where. He is one of the leaders of a nation wide campaign to end police impunity.
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