Tag: Police Operations

Bias at the Core?: Enduring Racial Disparities in D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Stop-and-Frisk Practices (2022-2023) | ACLU of DC

This report covers data collected between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2023. The data analyzed in this report indicates that the stark racial disparities present in the 2019 and 2020 stops data remain. MPD continues to disproportionately stop Black people in D.C.
— Read on www.acludc.org/en/publications/bias-core-enduring-racial-disparities-dc-metropolitan-police-department-stop-and-frisk

Get a .PDF copy of the report HERE

Alternative Traffic Enforcement: Identifying Areas for Future Research | National Institute of Justice

Alternative traffic enforcement is an emerging crime and justice issue prompted by efforts of dozens of jurisdictions throughout the United States. In response to documented dangers and disparities, they seek to change how some traffic violations are handled.[1] Specifically, these strategies try to increase public safety and reduce demands on officers by deprioritizing some traffic offenses and shifting enforcement responsibilities to alternative agencies or technologies. Most of these programs are in their infancy.
— Read on nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/alternative-traffic-enforcement-identifying-areas-future-research

Chicago Police Made Nearly 200,000 Secret Traffic Stops Last Year – The Good Men Project

Chicago police are required by law to document every time they pull someone over. But our new investigation with Bolts reveals the department is releasing vastly incomplete data to oversight agencies, even as the superintendent pledges reforms.
— Read on goodmenproject.com/featured-content/chicago-police-made-nearly-200000-secret-traffic-stops-last-year/

More than 100 cops who lied missing from Cook County’s Brady list

There is a serious problem with Brady lists. Some of the issues surrounding them are, do officers ever get a chance to be removed from those lists? What is due process for an officer that has been placed on a Brady list? Is there a criteria that the officers actions must meet to be placed on a Brady list? 

At least 15 of the nearly 120 Chicago police officers found to have made false or misleading statements were still on the force as of May.
— Read on chicagoreader.com/news-politics/brady-list-cpd-misconduct/