A two-year investigation by City Bureau and Invisible Institute into how Chicago police handle missing person cases reveals the disproportionate impact on Black women and girls, how police have mistreated family members or delayed cases, and how poor police data is making the problem harder to solve.
What Happens When Your Friend, Sister, or Daughter Goes Missing?
Loved ones of missing Black women reflect on betrayal by police, a lack of closure, and their hope to end stigma attached to the missing.
Pushing Past Obstacles to Find Missing Black Women
While the mishandling of missing person cases has been an ongoing problem for Chicago police, there is momentum — at the state, city, and community level — for solutions that…
Black, Missing, and Invisible in Police Records
From misclassifying the missing as “located” and homicide cases as “non-criminal,” poor police data makes it tough to solve the issue.
Serve and Protect? Not if Your Loved One’s Black and Missing
Families say police are dismissive, neglect their cases, and stigmatize their loved ones. Many feel it’s because they are Black.
Black Families Beg Cops to Take Action When Loved Ones Go Missing
By law, police can’t refuse any missing person report or ask people to wait before filing a report — but an investigation found they do.