What It Looked Like to Police Ourselves This Summer: An Ode to De-Escalation on My Chicago Block
This summer, my neighbors didn’t call the cops — they looked after one another
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14 min readSep 12, 2020
I live right on the border of Chicago’s Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods. Uptown is a rare spot of relative racial diversity in Chicago’s otherwise hyper-segregated map…