The publication's work has been described as "activism journalism," rejecting the idea of journalistic objectivity in favor of a focus on "fairness" and "ethics."[1]Injustice Watch also publishes a guide for voters to learn more about candidates for election or retention to the state judiciary.[4][5][6]
^"Chicago judge election guide: Here's how to research judges on your 2024 ballot". WMAQ-TV. November 4, 2024. Archived from the original on November 7, 2024. Voters in Cook County can turn to a few different resources, including a massive guide published by Injustice Watch. The interactive guide provides information on 75 circuit court judges and two appellate court judges that are running for retention or election to full terms in the area.
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Newman, Jonah (November 3, 2024). "A guide to the 2024 Cook County judicial retention races". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on November 7, 2024. Injustice Watch's team of investigative reporters works to fill this gap by providing voters with nonpartisan information about Cook County judicial elections.
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Heaton, Paul; Mayson, Sandra; Stevenson, Megan (2017). "The downstream consequences of misdemeanor pretrial detention". Stanford Law Review. 69 (3): 711–794.
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Brink, Malia (2021). "Public defense after the pandemic". Criminal Justice. 36 (3): 45–47. ProQuest2791357963. In Illinois, for example, the state supreme court suspended speedy trial rights in April 2020. Asked about reinstatement in June 2021 by Injustice Watch, a spokesperson for the court could not provide a timeline.
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Shteynberg, Reveka V.; Worden, Alissa Pollitz (2019). "Bail and pretrial detention reform in the lower courts". In Smith, Alisa; Maddan, Sean (eds.). The Lower Criminal Courts. pp. 119–131. doi:10.4324/9780429268816-12. ISBN978-0-429-26881-6. OCLC1082971665.
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Mauldin, Marcus D. (2024). "The ethics of public employees' disparaging private social media use, erosion of trust, and the advancement of the public interest". In Olejarski, Amanda M.; Neal, Sue M. (eds.). Empowering Public Administrators: Ethics and Public Service Values. pp. 122–134. doi:10.4324/9781032651835-10. ISBN978-1-03-265183-5. OCLC1411788008. OL37567416W. Organizations such as Injustice Watch have begun monitoring and reporting racist and violent social media posts made by law enforcement officers
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Williams, Tom; Haring, Kerstin Sophie (2023). No Justice, No Robots: From the Dispositions of Policing to an Abolitionist Robotics. AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. p. 570. doi:10.1145/3600211.3604663. In Philadelphia (where such a group of 72 Philadelphia police officers was uncovered), the Plain View Project revealed that of the 1,000 police profiles identified on Facebook, one in three had posted troubling content and of this third, one in three had had one or more federal civil rights suits filed against them.
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Remster, Brianna; Smith, Chris M.; Kramer, Rory (2024). "Race, gender, and police violence in the shadow of controlling images". Social Problems. 71 (2): 353–376. doi:10.1093/socpro/spac018.
