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EPD set to require body camera use Policy for all onduty field officers will begin Friday
to seek funding for the cameras and create an implementation plan after Gov. Bruce Rauner legalized their use in August of the same year.
By JULIA ESPARZA
Last summer, 11 Evanston officers piloted the body camera program to test “reliability of the equipment and address possible procedural or technical issues,” police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan told The Daily in June. Cmdr. Ryan Glew said the pilot program went well as more officers become comfortable with the cameras. He said the cameras “solve a lot more problems than they cause.” “( The c amer as) wil l improve police transparency and be as much of a benefit to EPD as it is to the citizenry,” Glew said. Parrott said once an officer returns from a shift, they will upload all the recorded footage to a secure cloud. He said the process will help organize footage and ensure its accessibility when necessary. However, he said citizens will only have access to the footage by filing a Freedom of Information Act request, which requires approval from the department. Furthermore, Parrott said if the person arrested does not give their consent, the public cannot have access to the footage.
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The Evanston Police Department will require all field officers to wear body cameras while on duty beginning Friday. All patrol, community, tactical, narcotics and traffic officers will be required to use the cameras — 120 in total — when working in the field, said Sgt. Jay Parrott, who oversaw the implementation of the body cameras. The cameras will increase accountability and safety for police officers, Parrott said. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said EPD’s goal is to be one of the most transparent departments in the Chicago area. He added that the cameras will be beneficial both for officers and the general public. “Whenever there is a question about factual matters regarding an incident … we will have the actual recording in video, ” Bobkiewicz said. “That will be a good thing for all involved.” Rising tensions between police and citizens nationwide prompted EPD to consider the use of body cameras in 2015. The department decided
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New York Times columnist Charles Blow delivers the keynote address for Northwestern’s MLK commemoration. Blow addressed issues of racial inequality and mass incarceration in his speech Thursday.
Blow addresses racial inequalities New York Times columnist talks criminal justice in MLK keynote By EMILY CHAIET
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If people in the U.S. want to address issues of racism, they have to focus on not only individuals, but also larger institutions such as the criminal justice system, New York Times columnist Charles Blow said at a Thursday address. “Our present culture rests on historical context,” Blow said. “More black men are now behind bars or under the watch
of the criminal justice system than were enslaved in 1850, just 11 years before the Civil War.” Blow spoke to a crowd of about 600 people in Ryan Auditorium, including University President Morton Schapiro, about race, poverty, mass incarceration and how these issues have evolved since the time of Martin Luther King, Jr. Blow’s keynote address was part of Northwestern’s two-week commemoration of King, organized by the the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and Associated Student
Government. The evening also included a performance by the NU Jazz ensemble and a benediction from Rev. Jackie Marquez, an associate University chaplain. ASG President Nehaarika Mulukutla introduced Blow. “Every year this becomes a larger and larger event because we’re beginning to see the importance of not just Dr. King, but the entire idea of civil rights and human rights for all, and this notion of inequality in the United States being persistent but overcomable,” Mulukutla, a
Weinberg senior, told the Daily. “It’s something that we need to constantly be fighting against.” Blow said liberal cities are still profiting from “black and brown flesh” by means of mass incarceration and over-policing in predominantly black neighborhoods, which allows them to gain funds from fines and prison fees. Blow said that consequently, black families are stripped of their male family members. Throughout the U.S., nearly » See BLOW, page 6
LEED-platinum house completed Misconduct policy Green home is first in Evanston to receive top-level certification By CAITLIN CHEN
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Construction recently finished on Evanston’s first LEED platinum-certified house, designed by Chicagobased architect Nathan Kipnis. The one-stor y house, located at 1426 Mulford St., is the first single-family home in Evanston to gain any form of LEED certification, Kipnis said at a presentation at the Evanston History Center Thursday. LEED is a green construction program that certifies buildings — based on elements of energy and resource efficiency — at several levels, with platinum being the highest. Kipnis said he is a proponent of passive solar building design, a building style that capitalizes on solar energy and the home’s structure for heating, rather than using technologies like geothermal heating. The house, built for
Dana Pearl (Weinberg ’80), has a distinctive butterfly roof, a design that creates a valley by sloping two surfaces.
This pushes rising hot air to the corners, where remotecontrolled windows allow the air to escape.
Instead of standard gaspowered appliances, the » See LEED, page 6
update cues survey Language changes lead ASG to solicit student feedback By GABBY BIRENBAUM
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Nathan Kipnis speaks to an audience of 70 at the Evanston History Center on Thursday. Kipnis designed Evanston’s first LEED platinum-certified home.
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In response to recent changes in Northwestern’s sexual misconduct policy, Associated Student Government are asking students to give their feedback. ASG created the survey in response to a Dec. 7 memo from Dwight Hamilton, the associate vice president for equity and Title IX coordinator, which asked for comments from students, faculty and staff on the new policy. Changes to the policy include making the definition of stalking consistent with Illinois law and revising the definitions of dating and domestic violence. The current policy defines dating or domestic violence as “so
severe, pervasive or persistent as to significantly interfere with an individual’s ability to learn and/or work or cause substantial emotional distress.” In addition, the new policy explains the complaint evaluation process and amends the section about retaliation to maintain consistency with the new non-retaliation policy. The University updated the policy because it was due for review, Hamilton told the Daily in an email, and also to reflect the new standards required by the Illinois Preventing Sexual Violence in Higher Education Act. ASG President Nehaarika Mulukutla said she is encouraged that the administration is seeking student input. “It’s important that students have the chance to sit at the table and be involved in the policy that adjudicates our campus with regard to sexual assault and sexual » See POLICY, page 6
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