You're Doing it Right

90% of the time, street stops are documented properly:

• Most of the stops that police officers made in Chicago during the first half of 2016 appeared to be by the book, according to a long-awaited report released Friday by a retired federal magistrate judge.
  
  Arlander Keys found what he termed a “good stop rate” of about 90 percent of the stops that he and his researchers reviewed. “This good stop rate, in isolation, certainly represents an excellent start by the CPD to documenting investigatory stops,” Keys wrote.

Of course, since stops are down 90%, it's that much easier to read all those ISR's. But this report, once again, gives lie to the ACLU contention that CPD was out of control, stopping people who were innocently walking down the street in high-crime areas, minding their own business. And even the 10% that aren't "good," might actually just be documented poorly.

But the report wouldn't be complete without throwing in some racial element - this is Chicago after all:

• But Keys noted that blacks and Hispanics are more likely than whites to be subjected to “bad stops,” in which officers failed to articulate probable cause for stopping someone. Minorities also are more likely to be patted down by officers, the retired federal judge found.

What made the stops "bad"? Was the Articulable Reasonable Suspicion not properly documented? That's a training issue. And did the intrepid Sun Times "reporters" ask how many of the pat-downs were based on consent? We didn't think so.

So we can safely guess that upwards of 95% of the stops are actually fully and legally compliant, just like with the Blue Cards that have lasted over a decade past their actual study time, that STILL haven't found any evidence of racial profiling.

So can the ACLU finally pack and leave town?