CU Citizens for Peace and Justice is a multiracial group that seeks to expose and remedy racial and class inequities in a number of areas of life in the Champaign-Urbana, Illinois community. One area is the criminal justice system. It deals with police stops in our primarily African neighborhoods, discriminatory arrests and charging by police officers and the States Attorney’s office, excessive use of force on the streets, the treatment of inmates in the county jail, and the conduct of trials and sentencing. It also deals with the issue of environmental racism, such as the discriminatory placement of toxic sites; issues of racial discrimination by trade unions; and educational disparities within the public schools.
