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November 19, 2015

Data Shows Chicago Police Not Disciplined After 97% of Complaints 
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Meanwhile, in Chicago, a trove of newly released data about the Chicago
Police Department shows only a fraction of the tens of thousands of
civilian complaints of police misconduct since 2011 have resulted in
discipline against the officers. In one case, a white officer
accumulated 68 complaints against him but received no disciplinary
actions. In total, the data shows that in 97 percent of the cases of
complaints filed over the last four years, officers received no
punishment whatsoever. The documents were released after a decade-long
legal battle by the nonprofit journalism organization the Invisible
Institute and the legal aid clinic at the University of Chicago Law
School.

 

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