The Chicago Police Department made 45% fewer traffic stops in 2024, but Black and Latino drivers were four times more likely ...

CPD traffic stops for minor violations ripped as 'gateway to criminal charges' at meeting seeking possible reforms At a meeting of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability ...

Two civil rights groups are calling for Chicago Police to rethink its use of traffic stops after issuing a report showing the department made 530,000 stops in 2023, a 5% increase from the previous ...

Chicago police oversight body hears traffic stop concerns and ideas for reform Residents shared negative experiences with traffic stops for minor infractions, while experts shared reforms enacted ...

CHICAGO — A deadly traffic stop where plainclothes Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 shots in under a minute has raised serious questions about the use of force and role of tactical ...

In a 2013 Gallup Poll, 24% of Black men aged 18 to 34 said they had been unfairly treated by police in the last 30 days.Some, no doubt, had endured traffic stops.

Recent analysis of the Chicago Police Department’s radio dispatch data uncovered that over one-third of traffic stops are not reported, a violation of Illinois state law. This amounts to ...

The debate over Chicago's long-criticized police traffic stop strategy moved into federal court on Tuesday. 24/7 Live Chicago & Suburban Cook Co. North Suburbs West Suburbs South Suburbs NW Indiana.

In Chicago, it has declined sharply since a 2015 reform agreement between the ACLU and the Chicago Police Department. Meanwhile, traffic stops have surged in Chicago, rising from less than 200,000 ...

At stops for common traffic infractions, the odds are as low as 1 in 6.5 million, according to a 2019 study by Jordan Blair Woods, a law professor at the University of Arkansas.

CHICAGO (AP) — A deadly traffic stop where plainclothes Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 shots in under a minute has raised serious questions about the use of force and role of tactical ...