We uncovered in 2024 that Chicago police was breaking a law requiring it to report police stops to state:
It had failed to report ≈ *200,000* (!) stops.
Here: https://boltsmag.org/chicago-police-secret-traffic-stops/
Chicago police finally concedes this, in new Sun-Times investigation: https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/03/21/chicago-police-department-dexter-reed-traffic-stops
It had failed to report ≈ *200,000* (!) stops.
Here: https://boltsmag.org/chicago-police-secret-traffic-stops/
Chicago police finally concedes this, in new Sun-Times investigation: https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/03/21/chicago-police-department-dexter-reed-traffic-stops
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The DOJ will prob give them a medal. 🙄
Revisit it here: https://boltsmag.org/chicago-police-secret-traffic-stops/
(And I appreciate the @chicago.suntimes.com crediting our 2024 article! Some pubs wouldn't.)
Now they're acknowledging they gave us incorrect information... as we already knew & wrote last year. https://bsky.app/profile/jonahshai.bsky.social/post/3lkvgo45wb22d
bolts: https://boltsmag.org/donate.
and injustice watch: https://www.injusticewatch.org/donate/
and check out your local outlets!
I come from Perth, Western Australia. We generally keep our craziness to a minimum (enough problems, but not Florida problems)
https://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports98/police/uspo53.htm