Chip Mitchell

@ChipMitchell1

@WBEZ public safety, policing and public health. Ex-assistant coach of my daughter’s baseball team. Blocker of anonymous cowards. Mobile/Signal: 312-286-9986.

Chicago and Bogotá

Joined April 2009

939Following

8KFollowers

Chip Mitchell@ChipMitchell1 · 3 h

Cook County top prosecutor Eileen O’Neill Burke stops maintaining lists of discredited #police officers, @MaxBlaisdell1 reports. @samstecklow @chicago_reader @invinst chicagoreader.com/news/reader-in…

ChipMitchell1's tweet card. The changes amount to small but significant rollbacks in the office’s openness under State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke

122

Chip Mitchell@ChipMitchell1 · Jul 18

Chicago could face a bill in the hundreds of millions of dollars for #police overtime in a long-running case involving 8,500 current and ex-#CPD employees, @dmihalopoulos reports. A former union lawyer says settling early would have cost just $14 million. wbez.org/investigations…

ChipMitchell1's tweet card. A judge ruled five years ago in favor of 8,500 current and former Chicago Police Department employees. But the case has gone on and the interest keeps building as City Hall disputes how much it...

485

Chip Mitchell Retweeted

Chicago Sun-Times@Suntimes · Jul 17

In a key development for a Chicago man seeking a new trial after more than 30 years in prison, a Cook County judge will allow a Mauritanian-born writer and terrorism suspect to testify. trib.al/qZXKZdV

2.0K

Chip Mitchell Retweeted

WBEZ@WBEZ · Jul 17

A Cook County judge will allow a Mauritanian-born writer and terrorism suspect to testify at a hearing that will determine whether a Chicago man imprisoned more than three decades for an infamous North Side murder will get a new trial. trib.al/fAxWv5r

2.0K

Chip Mitchell Retweeted

Jon Seidel@SeidelContent · Jul 17

Ex-Gitmo detainee will be allowed to testify about alleged torture by former Chicago detective. Reporting by @ChipMitchell1: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/07/…

700

Chip Mitchell@ChipMitchell1 · Jul 17

A Cook County judge will allow a Mauritanian-born writer and #terrorism suspect to testify at a hearing that will determine whether a #Chicago man imprisoned more than three decades for an infamous North Side murder will get a new trial, @WBEZ reports. wbez.org/criminal-justi…

ChipMitchell1's tweet card. The same detective allegedly also tortured a confession out of Anthony Garrett, leading to his conviction for 7-year-old Dantrell Davis’ 1992 fatal shooting in the Cabrini-Green public housing...

166

Chip Mitchell Retweeted

WBEZ@WBEZ · Jul 16

Chicago police traffic stops plummeted last year, but the drop varied wildly across the city and sharp racial disparities persisted, a WBEZ analysis of Illinois Department of Transportation data has found. trib.al/dnVmrdD

750

Chip Mitchell Retweeted

Gilbert Bailon@GilbertBailon · Jul 16

Report shows big drop in Chicago police traffic stops, but sharp racial disparities persist wbez.org/data/2025/07/1… @ChipMitchell1 @WBEZ @Suntimes

130

Chip Mitchell@ChipMitchell1 · Jul 16

#Chicago #police traffic stops plummeted last year, but the drop varied wildly across the city and sharp racial disparities persisted, a @WBEZ analysis of #Illinois Department of Transportation data has found. #CPD #twill wbez.org/data/2025/07/1…

ChipMitchell1's tweet image. #Chicago #police traffic stops plummeted last year, but the drop varied wildly across the city and sharp racial disparities persisted, a @WBEZ analysis of #Illinois Department of Transportation data has found.

#CPD #twill

wbez.org/data/2025/07/1…

310

Chip Mitchell@ChipMitchell1 · Jul 9

Alberto Rojas, the #California bishop letting his flock skip Sunday masses due to fear of #ICEraids, was an @ArchChicago auxiliary bishop from 2011 to 2019. He worked closely with @CardinalBCupich and, several times, met Bishop Robert Francis Prevost, who is now Pope Leo XIV.

RRich Raho@RichRaho · Jul 9

NEW: Bishop Rojas of San Bernardino has dispensed his Diocese from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass due to ongoing ICE raids.

628

Chip Mitchell@ChipMitchell1 · Jul 9

Officials under @ChicagosMayor keep #CPD “merit” promotion lists secret despite @Chicago_Police promises to release them and despite an Obama-era @TheJusticeDept report condemning the promotions. @racheyy_marie @samstecklow @invinst @Chicago_Reader chicagoreader.com/news/reader-in…

ChipMitchell1's tweet card. The CPD committed to releasing “merit” promotion lists in 2017. Now, the city claims it would be an invasion of privacy.

1.0K

Chip Mitchell Retweeted

Sassington, M.C.@MissSassbox · Jun 29

everytime I thought I was impressed, I was sadly mistaken and even MORE impressed. boss lady on the foundation is EVERYTHING.

524

9.0K

99.0K

6.0K

2.1M

Chip Mitchell@ChipMitchell1 · Jun 30

Organizers of banned #Budapest #Pride were engulfed in a wave of public support so massive that some commentators are calling it a political turning point, potentially weakening #Orban and his self-proclaimed “illiberal” Christian authoritarianism. wapo.st/4nqNvwr

ChipMitchell1's tweet card. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s effort to ban Pride backfired, drawing a huge throng in support of LGBTQ+ rights and hurting him and his party ahead of elections next year.

268

Chip Mitchell@ChipMitchell1 · Jun 30

A bank in Bogotá supports pride.

398

Chip Mitchell Retweeted

derek guy@dieworkwear · Jun 27

how do you feel about the underpaid amazon workers who can't afford the weddings they deserve?

3.0K

54.0K

Chip Mitchell Retweeted

derek guy@dieworkwear · Jun 27

Jeff Bezos appears to be wearing the wrong waistcoat for his wedding. This is a dinner suit (aka tuxedo) and thus requires a formal waistcoat, which is cut lower on the body. He's wearing a business vest, which is designed for business suits. Needs a waistcoat like the right.

1.0K

29.0K

2.0K

3.4M

Chip Mitchell@ChipMitchell1 · Jun 18

The council approved the $14.75 million settlement with James Gibson, my @WBEZ colleague @MariahWoelfel reports. The payouts by #Chicago, Cook County and #Illinois to Burge-related exonerees now total $168.3 million.

CChip Mitchell@ChipMitchell1 · Jun 18

1/4 The #Chicago City Council today is set to vote on a $14.75 million settlement with James Gibson, exonerated in a 1989 double murder. Chicago, Cook County and Illinois have already paid $153 million to 85 people allegedly tortured by Cmdr. Jon Burge or detectives under him.

3.0K

Chip Mitchell@ChipMitchell1 · Jun 18

#ICE detains 3 protesters, all U.S. citizens, for "assaulting" an officer at Chicago #immigration court. Witness: The agents wore masks, didn’t identify themselves, cuffed the protesters & forced them into an unmarked vehicle. @nellbsalzman @LAURA_N_ROD chicagotribune.com/2025/06/18/ice…

ChipMitchell1's tweet card. The head of Chicago’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office Tuesday defended the conduct and decorum of federal agents who have ramped up arrests of undocumented immigrants.

462

Chip Mitchell Retweeted

Mariah Woelfel@MariahWoelfel · Jun 18

Chicago City Council could vote today on the ordinance that gives police power to declare a curfew anytime, anywhere, even as it remains unclear who pitched a main provision — the ability to implement a curfew with just 30 minutes notice. chicago.suntimes.com/2025/06/17/sna…

966

Chip Mitchell@ChipMitchell1 · Jun 17

Kindly asking people who don’t know Chicago, namely the @nytimes editorial board, to shut up about Chicago

AAlex Arriaga@alexarriaga__ · Jun 16

Alice pick me up

423

28.0K