Chicago Worse Than NYC For Stop And Frisk: Class action Lawsuit Filed (Picture, Video)

Chicago has a bigger problem with stop and frisks by police than New York had at the height of its use by New York police, and now six African American black men are suing the city of Chicago, the Chicago Police Department, CPD Superintendent Garry McCarthy and officers, who were involved in allegedly stopping and frisking them without reasonable suspicion and on the basis of their race.

The class action lawsuit was filed on April 20 and details six stop and frisks that took place in the past few years. The stops highlighted in the complaint represent a tiny, tiny sliver of the more than hundred thousand stop and frisks Chicago police carry out primarily in communities of color each year. That is why the six men seek to represent a class of people in Chicago, who have had their rights violated by stop and frisks.

The men seek an injunction that will prevent the city from continuing to employ “suspicionless stop and frisks” or stop and frisks based on racial or ethnic profiling. They seek an injunction on the use of quotas for arrests and stop and frisks and that the CPD document stops and keep records of the stops in an up-to-date computer database. Plus, they seek damages for the alleged abuse at issue in the lawsuit.  MOREHERE