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"Ms. Bond wanted more than anything to prevent officers from hurting others the way that they hurt her," said Craig Futterman, a University of Chicago law professor who represented Bond. "We had to find a way, and Jamie Kalven stepped up to lead this fight."The coup of long-embattled information has now given rise to the largest known repository of police disciplinary records, a new online data tool that launched this week in Chicago. Dubbed the Citizens Police Data Project, it aims to serve as a national model of accountability for law enforcement. Amid a national push to open up policing to more scrutiny—23 states still keep police disciplinary complaints confidential—the project puts Chicago near the front of the pack when it comes to documenting how cops avoid punishment over misconduct complaints."In Diane Bond's case, she endured a series of horrific abuses by the hands of the same officers," said Samantha Liskow, a civil rights attorney who served on the legal team in both Bond's suit and the Kalven case. "That's the kind of thing that data can blow the lid off of."Related: City of Silence
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