Chicago Police and ACLU agree to major changes in stop-and-frisk policy - Chicago Sun-Times
Garry McCarthy agreed Thursday to have a retired judge evaluate the department’s stop-and-frisk practices and require his officers to document whenever they conduct a pat-down. The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois blasted the department in March for failing to record when officers frisk someone. The ACLU also questioned whether officers often stop people illegally. “The objective is to ensure that there is compliance with the law, to reform policies that inhibit the department from complying with the law and build into the department an internal capacity to review and audit and monitor officers on the street... Under the settlement, the police department will expand the information on “contact cards” that officers have been required to fill out when they stop someone on the street for questioning. The cards list the person’s name, race, sex, address, phone number and other personal information. The officer checks a box for the type of contact: traffic-related, suspicious person, gang- or drug-related, crime victim or other. Now contact cards will also say whether the person was frisked, whether contraband like a gun was found, and whether there was an arrest, warning or citation. Source: chicago.suntimes.com
