Chicago Police To Simplify Street Stop Form After Complaints
CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago Police Interim Superintendent John Escalante says he will simplify forms that officers must fill out when they make street stops.
Escalante says he made the decision after watching the number of street stops plummet. He says officers complained that the two-page "investigatory stop reports" that they've had to fill out since Jan. 1 take too long and are confusing.
The reports replaced "contact cards" that officers used to fill out. That changed after the police department and the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois reached an agreement following an ACLU study that found officers targeted blacks in hundreds of thousands of street stops.
Escalante says the ACLU agreed to a streamlined form. He says he expects street stops to climb when the new forms start being used March 1.
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