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The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


In FY 2020, University Police expenses totaled $11.2 million — 90 percent of which went to compensation and external contract staffing. The University projects UP expenses for FY 2021 to be down by 5.2 percent to $10.6 million.

Northwestern releases long-awaited NUPD budget review, details $11.2 million in expenses for FY 2020

November 17, 2020

Northwestern released a review of University Police on Monday, detailing its role on campus, budget allocations and a slight decrease in spending over the past two fiscal years. Black undergraduate...

Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) addresses protesters. Evanston Fight for Black Lives held a sit-in at Rainey’s house Saturday to demand Rainey vote against the city’s proposed 2021 budget and commit to defunding Evanston Police Department by 75 percent.

Evanston Fight for Black Lives launches sit-in series to defund EPD

November 16, 2020

Organizers from Evanston Fight for Black Lives held a sit-in in front of Ald. Ann Rainey’s (8th) house on Saturday, demanding that she vote against the city’s proposed 2021 budget and commit to defunding...

The Weekly: Week Nine Recap

The Weekly: Week Nine Recap

November 15, 2020

Heightened police presence at NUCNC protests, Angela Davis speaks at Black State of the Union, District 202 reports a widening racial achievement gap and the Evanston City Council is trying to ban beer...

Wednesday’s action sought to continue the tradition of Black and Asian solidarity in mobilizing for the abolition of prisons and policing.

Kaibigan, APAC join NUCNC, stand in solidarity with movement to abolish NUPD

November 12, 2020

For their 31st day of daily actions to abolish University Police, NU Community Not Cops collaborated with the Asian Pacific American Coalition and Kaibigan, the Philippine-American student association,...

 Police officers at a Nov. 10 NUCNC protest. The group released an open letter to Evanston residents Wednesday explaining the movement’s motivations and history.

NUCNC, student protesters eating “breakfast” and reading abolitionist literature met with unprecedented police presence

November 10, 2020

Student protesters demanding the abolition of University Police were met with a heavy police presence Monday — armed police in riot gear from the Northern Illinois Police Alarm System’s Mobile Field...

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