Debbie Southorn

Debbie Southorn works for the American Friends Service Committee in Chicago, where she's supported community based responses to police violence. In 2012, she co-founded the Chicago chapter of Black & Pink, and currently serves on the National Committee of the War Resisters League.

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Officers Accused of Abuses Are Leading Chicago Police’s “Implicit Bias” Training Program

Debbie Southorn, Sarah Lazare

- Feb. 3

Many of the Chicago police leading anti-bias trainings are trailed by a history of alleged abuses against black people.

Chicago, IL - July 13, 2017 - Police barricades lie in a pile one block from "Queens Landing", the location where Jedediah Brown parked his car on a pedestrian area between Lake Shore Drive and the shore of Lake Michigan and the incident with the Chicago Police Department's SWAT team ensued.

How Do Chicago Police Treat Mental Health? With SWAT Raids

Sarah Lazare, Debbie Southorn

- Aug. 6

Funded by the feds for counterterrorism, Chicago’s militarized police are instead turned loose on the city’s most vulnerable.

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Officers Accused of Abuses Are Leading Chicago Police’s “Implicit Bias” Training Program

How Do Chicago Police Treat Mental Health? With SWAT Raids