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.
Officers Accused of Abuses Are Leading Chicago Police’s “Implicit Bias” Training Program
Many of the Chicago police leading anti-bias trainings are trailed by a history of alleged abuses against black people.
How Do Chicago Police Treat Mental Health? With SWAT Raids
Funded by the feds for counterterrorism, Chicago’s militarized police are instead turned loose on the city’s most vulnerable.