“A lot of civil rights advocates, as well as the public defender’s office, say this is likely a strategy to use pretextual traffic stops to pull over Black drivers, search their vehicles to find some kind of contraband,” said Pascal_Sabino
Chicago police officers are arresting thousands more Black drivers after traffic stops than they report, according to a recent analysis of police data fromThe Chicago Police Department reported finding weapons in 388 traffic stops in 2021, according to the state’s Illinois Traffic Stop Study.But journalists, analyzing gun arrests from that year, found more than 2,300 people were arrested on gun charges, while also being cited for a minor traffic violation during the encounter.
Sabino reports that traffic stops by Chicago police have increased at the same time the number of gun possession arrests have. In 2014, police arrested about 2,500 adults on gun possession charges. By 2020, that number doubled to over 5,500. The stops and arrests disproportionately occur on the South and West sides.
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