The dispute over the future of the gang database represents the first clash between the Police Department’s leaders and the commission made up of Chicagoans given the authority to set policy for the department in an attempt to restore trust.
The Feb. 28 election will determine who will make up councils in each of the city’s 22 police districts, who will in turn nominate seven people to serve on the citywide commission.
More than three and a half years ago, the city’s watchdog warned the police department’s gang databases were riddled with errors, ripe for abuse and disproportionately targeted Black and Latino Chicagoans. But those efforts stalled after Mayor Lori Lightfoot took office and as the city also faced a class-action lawsuit that demanded changes to the way police officers used the gang database.after city officials agreed to make a series of significant changes to the way the database operates.
The settlement also prohibited police officers from filling out “gang arrest” cards and submitting that information as justification for adding someone to the database, according to the agreement resolving the lawsuit. Those cards contained unreliable information and were disproportionately used to tag Black and Latino Chicagoans as gang members, according to Ferguson’s audit.
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