A nonprofit journalism group that helped create an interactive database that lists thousands of complaints alleging misconduct by Chicago Police officers has been awarded $400,000.
The Invisible Institute and the Experimental Station was awarded the grant by the Knight News Challenge on Data to expand its Citizens Police Data Project.
The database was launched last year after a long legal battle to force the city to make public the misconduct records.
The Knight News Challenge praised the group for an "online toolkit" it says will serve as national model for others reporting and tracking allegations of police misconduct.
The Invisible Institute played a key role in last November's release of the video of a white officer fatally shooting black teenager Laquan McDonald.
