Chicago police officers have made over 2.5 million investigatory stops and pat-downs over the last decade, many done to enforce the city’s anti-gang and drug loitering ordinance.
Mayor Brandon Johnson will receive the city's top picks for the next CPD superintendent. There are currently six names in the running with the pool to be narrowed down to three tonight.have made over 2.5 million investigatory stops and pat-downs over the last decade, many done to enforce the city’s anti-gang and drug loitering ordinance.
Those talks managed to narrow the case — from 35 named plaintiffs to just five — "none of whom have any reportable criminal history." "The benefits of this settlement are that the city would otherwise have to litigate five separate trials if this matter were to proceed to trial and would risk a declaratory finding that the city’s policies, practices and procedures involving investigatory stops and protective pat-downs — as well as the specific enforcement of these ordinances — are unconstitutional and discriminatory," Bagby said.
Chicago’s initial crackdown on street corner gang activity in 1992 led to over 42,000 arrests in three years before a string of adverse court decisions forced the city to suspend enforcement in December 1995. The Council ultimately approved the watered-down ordinance amid warnings from a divided Black Caucus that it would "legalize racial profiling."
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