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.”
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