Posted on 03/23/2015 4:56:37 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Chicago police officers initiated stop, question and frisk encounters at a much higher rate last summer than their New York City counterparts ever did, and just like with New York’s heavily criticized program, Chicago blacks and other racial minorities were disproportionately targeted, according to a civil liberties group.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois released a report Monday saying it identified more than 250,000 Chicago stop-and-frisk encounters in which there were no arrests from May through August 2014. African-Americans accounted for nearly three-quarters of those stopped, even though they make up about a third of the city’s population. On a per capita basis, Chicago police stopped 93.6 people per 1,000 residents, or more than four times New York’s peak rate of 22.9 stops per 1,000 residents, which happened during the same four-month period of 2011. […]
People were far more likely to be stopped in predominantly black communities and blacks were more likely to be the target of stops in predominantly white neighborhoods, the study found. […]
The ACLU said it also found that police gave no “legally sufficient reason” for initiating many of the stops. …
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Will Chicago go the way of Detroit?
Rahmbo did warn that Chicago could go bankrupt, two years ago. Not that he had any solutions.
I guess the CPD was getting a bit Rahm-bunctious.
SeeCawGo is toast already.... the little stubby princess has zero support.....
Not even Jeremiah Wright can save his little dancing feet.... Lost cause....
Damn, that’s serious when the ACLU goes after “Obamaland”.
oh...so somebody’s upset because Chicago’s stop ‘n frisk rate for Blacks is out of proportion with the population.....?
When will they get upset because the Black on Black murder rate is out of proportion relative to the white on white murder rate?
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