Police officials, including Superintendent David Brown, have repeatedly told members of the Chicago City Council that the new gang database dubbed the Criminal Enterprise Information System would be up and running shortly, only to see those deadlines repeatedly missed without explanation.
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A measure that grants the Chicago Police Board the power to overrule the Chicago Police Department and remove a Chicagoan from an under-development gang database advanced Wednesday even though it is not clear when that system will be up and running.
Heather Cherone | July 27, 2021 9:03 pm
Chicago Police Department officials on Tuesday defended their continuing use of “deeply flawed” records that list approximately 135,000 Chicagoans as members of gangs nearly 2 1/2 years after the city’s watchdog found the databases were riddled with errors, ripe for abuse and disproportionately targeted Black and Latino Chicagoans.
During a hearing before the City Council’s Public Safety Committee, Deputy Chief Thomas Mills told alderpeople that police officers need a database that lists individuals’ gang affiliations to prevent “retaliatory violence” and give officers a chance to “get ahead of the next crime.”
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However, an April 2019 audit by the office of Inspector General Joseph Ferguson determined the city’s gang databases were a “deeply flawed collection of gang data, with poor quality controls and inadequate protections for procedural rights.”