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Via CSM
An “unprecedented” agreement between the Chicago Police Department and the American Civil Liberties Union will allow independent evaluations of the department’s controversial “stop and frisk” program.
The new agreement will go into effect immediately, the two groups announced Friday. In March, the ACLU came out with a report finding that racial minorities were disproportionately targeted by Chicago officers and that, in total, Chicagoans were stopped four times as often as New Yorkers were at the height of their stop-and-frisk program.
The city and the CPD will now collect additional data about investigatory stops – including those that don’t lead to an arrest. The data will include officers’ names and badge numbers; the race, ethnicity, and gender of the person stopped; and the reason for the stop, along with its location, date, and time. The information will be given to the ACLU and Arlander Keys, a former US magistrate judge.