The number of traffic stops in Chicago surged after the settlement with ACLU Illinois over stop-and-frisk pedestrian stops, while pedestrian stops fell from a high of 710,000 in 2014 to just 107,000 in 2016. Chicago’s Black, Latino drivers targets of racially biased traffic stops, ACLU lawsuit alleges.The lawsuit comes less than a decade after CPD reached a settlement with ACLU Illinois over similarly disproportionate stops of minority pedestrians, as Sun-Times reporter Andy Grimm reported last week. “It’s been about numbers and not improving community relationships.”
“My mother used to tell me, ‘Don’t confuse activity with accomplishment,’” said Ed Yohnka, the ACLU Illinois’ director of communications and public policy. Just as troubling, the pattern of repeated, ineffective traffic stops is a serious barrier to building bridges of trust between CPD and communities of color - which makes it harder to work with witnesses who can help to solve murders, carjackings and other serious crimes. Block, a senior supervising attorney for the ACLU’s Roger Baldwin Foundation, told us. “It’s a waste of police resources because they’re not finding drugs and guns in more than 99% of these stops,” Alexandra K. Illegal drugs were recovered in just 0.3% of the traffic stops, and police seized weapons even less frequently, at a rate of only 0.05%. Shockingly, fewer than 1% of the approximately hundreds of thousands of traffic stops CPD made each of those six years led to an arrest or the discovery of illegal drugs or a gun. The ACLU analyzed more than 2.6 million traffic stops over six years, from 2016 through 2022, that showed Black drivers in Chicago are four to seven times more likely to be pulled over by police than whites, and Latino drivers are stopped twice as often. What does Chicago need in a new police superintendent? First, a leader with vision.Īnd the pattern is far more pervasive than just these five Chicagoans, the lawsuit alleges.
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