Policy Director of Northwestern University's Children and Family Justice Center, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Dodges Questions Regarding Deaths of Police
Stephanie Kollmann says she doesn't understand clear, concise questions regarding official positions of the political left relating to open calls in the past for police officers to die
On 18 November 2021, at or around 6:37AM, Stephanie Kollmann, the Policy Director of the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law since 2010, tweeted out a link to a Chicago Tribune article published on 16 Nov 2021 written by John Byrne and Annie Sweeney with the headline “Angry that slain Chicago Officer Ella French was recommended for discipline, aldermen oppose mayor’s police accountability nominee”
Kollmann stated in her tweet, “The implication that the infractions of dead officers are to be buried and forgotten - from public officials who are to exercise oversight! - is incredibly disturbing. For me, it also raises questions about the circumstances of several officer deaths.”
This reporter then responded with intrigue. I wanted to know what she was thinking.
Kollmann said in return, “I'm definitely not going to speculate. But if an officer were being investigated for a federal or state crime or misconduct, that might bear on a suicide or off-duty homicide. And material that would ordinarily be disclosed has been withheld from the public re: on-duty homicide.”
What followed next was Kollmann hiding replies from me in this discussion, and deleting two of her tweet replies when questioned directly about positions of the political left regarding past protest chants and open calls on social media for police officers to commit suicide and be murdered, things this reporter was present in protest crowds to witness on several occasions. This reporter has also witnessed these open calls for the suicides and murders of police officers from various Twitter users over the years. These tweets are almost universally sent by people using anonymous Twitter handles.
This is the first reply in the conversation between myself and Kollmann that Kollmann decided to hide from the public using Twitter’s “Hide Reply” feature:
Kollman’s reply?
The above reply was deleted by Kollmann, but not before a screenshot could be taken.
My next replies to Kollmann were these, in exact order……..
Kollmann suddenly decided she “didn’t understand” and said she couldn’t answer the questions, a tweet she also quickly deleted
This reporter then pressed Kollmann by pointing out that I was asking rather clear and concise questions.
While Kollmann opts to hide her face on Twitter, the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law website displays a photo of Kollmann, along with a brief bio.
On August 24th, 2020, Kollmann signed onto a letter published on the Medium platform that stated “Our concern is deeper than law’s failure: our concern is with law’s central role in creating, strengthening, and legitimizing police”.
Kollmann is listed by the Chicago Sun-Times as one of their journalists since April 15th, 2019. Since that date, Kollmann has only written three articles, one of which goes back to the date May 16th, 2017. Kollmann wrote two other pieces for the Sun-Times dated for March 16th, 2018, and July 22nd, 2019.
All three of these pieces have some things in common. The first is that Kollmann goes out of her way to never mention that people have responsibility for their own actions, and the consequences that come with those behaviors. At no time does Kollmann ever talk about personal responsibility or accountability for oneself.
Kollmann stated in her last piece with the Sun-Times that gun offenses and violent crimes are to be blamed on the police: “Police accountability is key. Gun-carrying rates are higher when residents don’t trust police to protect them; violent crime clearance rates are lower when victims and witnesses fear contact with police.” and she did so without citing any evidence for this statement.
The average person will read Kollmann’s words and have no problem with it, but the fact that is the average person in the United States is poorly educated with reading, spelling, and reading comprehension levels far below where those levels should be for their respective individual developmental stages. This means the average person will not be able to see that Kollmann hides her dehumanization of her fellow human beings behind professional double talk. In other words, Kollmann has become skilled with using language to say things to people that are extremely abusive and inhumane without people knowing that Kollmann used the language of professionalism to insult their intelligence and dehumanize them.
According to the Northwestern University Bluhm Legal Clinic Children and Family Justice Center Frequently Requested Reports and Publications web page, “On April 20th, 2018, testified before the Illinois Senate Public Health Committee. The committee heard Kollmann explain why the Chicago Police Department’s gang database is both over-inclusive and inaccurate — failings that make it damaging to innocent individuals and an unworkable crime-fighting tool.” This testimony to the Illinois Senate Public Health Committee came just one month and four days AFTER Kollmann complained about Rahm Emmanuel’s “Anti-Carjacking Bill” being “unfair”.
Stephanie Kollmann is a dedicated and devout friend of convicted registered sex offenders. On September 27th, 2017, Kollmann wrote a three-page letter expounding on her personal love for convicted sex offenders, juveniles and adults alike, in which she advocated for their removal from the sex offender registry. Kollmann cited national public policy, science, and case law having “developed significantly” in this letter while never pointing to any evidence of that.
Kollmann goes on to show reckless disregard for the safety of sex crime victims, and those at risk for such victimization by saying “Here in Illinois, attorneys engaged in the juvenile removal petition process have been able to observe the damage inflicted by the highly-punitive nature of being on the registry – a mostly-lawyerless, and often lawless, hidden state of sweeping limitations on basic freedoms. Illinois’ state juvenile policy advisory board issued a major research report concluding that the “lengthy, complex, and costly” process of obtaining an exemption from registry does not cure fundamental problems with Illinois law, which should be revised to disband the juvenile registry.”
Translated properly, this means that neither Kollmann, Northwestern University, or the State of Illinois have a problem with offenders who commit sex crimes. Kollmann makes it clear she’s more worried about the basic freedoms of sexual predators.
Download the letter here in PDF format.
The same web resource at Northwestern University also shows that Stephanie Kollmann, CFJC Policy Director, testified at the Feb. 16, 2021, Joint Hearing of the Illinois Senate Public Safety Committee and Illinois Senate Criminal Law Committee. “Kollmann said crime report and arrest data provide an incomplete picture of who is responsible and the reasons for the rise in carjackings across the nation.”. Once again, Kollmann does her best to convince the state that violent criminals shouldn’t be held responsible for their criminal acts. This would tend to place law enforcement personnel, and, by extension, the public, in danger.
Kollmann’s use of language may appear to be reasonable, but is demeaning and dehumanizing to victims of violent crimes, as well as to law enforcement personnel, both of whom are in danger 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Kollmann’s tweets this morning along with her attempt to be deceptive by hiding tweets, deleting two tweets, and pretending she didn’t understand this morning’s questions in proper clear context, her Sun-Times articles, and her activity history with the Northwestern University Bluhm Legal Clinic Children and Family Justice Center displayed on their web page show that it is more likely than not likely that Stephanie poses a real danger to herself, to the public, and to any public safety personnel in her vicinity. A reasonable person would believe that Kollmann sides with celebrating the suicides and murders of law enforcement, judicial, EMS, and other public safety personnel. This would reasonably place Kollmann in the category of a domestic violent extremist as defined by the FBI.