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I'm Brandis Friedman.

Here's what we're looking at.

What I have been warning of.

>> Is now being realized.

>> Governor Pritzker says federal officials are looking to deployed military troops to Illinois.

And the latest in our continuing coverage of police and policing in Chicago.

group's acp.

These increased use of force violates the consent decree.

What the Supreme Court's recent decision on racial profiling could mean for local policing.

And the cost of repeated misconduct by some Chicago police officers dig into that data.

>> First off tonight, before we get to our focus on local policing after weeks of speculation, Illinois National Guard troops may be deployed to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

>> Moments ago, the Illinois National Guard received word that the Department of Homeland Security has sent a memo to the Department of War.

She king the deployment of 100 military troops to Illinois.

Claiming a need for the protection of ICE personnel and facilities.

What I have been warning of is now being realized.

>> While it remains uncertain when those troops could be deployed, tensions continue to escalate in west suburban broadview between local leaders and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Broadview police say they are investigating after a federal ice agents allegedly fired a, quote, chemical munition at a vehicle driven by a local television news reporter on Saturday, CBS Chicago reporter shared on social media that an ICE agent, quote, took a direct shot at her car as she was driving near the ICE detention facility to check out the scene.

The facility has been the site of multiple clashes between protesters and federal agents.

The U.S.

attorneys office late this afternoon saying 5 people are facing federal charges, including resisting arrest, assaulting a federal officer and threatening to kill a federal agent during protests over the weekend.

Cook County homeowners have just 2 weeks to apply for property tax relief from the county's new homeowner relief fund.

County officials say the 15 million dollar program is intended to support those who've experienced substantial increases in property taxes in recent years.

>> If you're in a area where the property values are lower, people end up walking away from property and it becomes vacant because of high taxes and increases that are unexpected and another communities of people who are long-term residents are forced to move.

None of that is None of that is something that we should oversee and not try to change.

>> Selected recipients will receive $1000 in one time assistance to qualify.

Homeowners must have experienced a property tax increase of at least 50% in the 2021.

22 23 tax years as well as meet certain income requirements.

The Cook County homeowner relief and was passed in the county's 2025 budget applications are open through October 10th for how to apply.

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That's right after this.

>> Chicago tonight is made possible in part why the Alexandra and John Nichols family.

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Don't >> A coalition of police reform groups are raising new concerns about a significant increase in the number of times.

Chicago police officers are using force against members of the public.

The uptick comes more than 6 and a half years after Chicago officials agreed to put the police department under extensive oversight from a federal judge or head to.

Sharon joins us now with the latest on the Chicago consent decree.

How to break down these numbers for us.

How often do Chicago police officers use force?

CPD zone data shows that between 2021 2024.

The number of times police officers used any kind of force.

>> Increased 75%.

Now the coalition led by the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois says that's very troubling.

They're especially concerned because the number of times officers have used what they called lethal force are the most serious level of force has more than doubled between 2023 2024.

In all Chicago, police have shot 17 people so far this year, killing 8 more than all of 2024. the consent decree prompted, of course, by federal investigation that found CPD routinely violated the rights of Chicago's Black and Latino people.

>> What has changed since 2019?

Not much according to the coalition, they say before the consent decree, 90% of Chicagoans who were subject to use of force by a Chicago police officer were black or Latino.

>> And it is still over 90%.

6 and a half years How how has or has CPD brass responded to this increased?

Well, Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling says that the increase not actually there.

It is just a matter.

He says of officers fulfilling the terms of the consent decree which requires every use of force to be documented properly with what's called a tactical response report.

Now, the coalition does not buy that argument and that is what they're asking a federal the federal judge overseeing the consent decree case to dig into.

So the coalition that hold the federal judge overseeing the court case that that increase, of course, violates the consent decree and they have started the process of attempting to enforce the agreement.

>> What happens now while they have 45 days to meet with everybody involved with the consent decree that also involves the Illinois Attorney general.

>> To hammer out sort of a way forward now with the coalition wants is pretty stringent.

They want a binding agreement that was clear benchmarks for the use of force by Chicago police officers with the aim of reducing their use of force in 2025. back to levels.

Last seen in 2022.

Okay.

A lot of work cut out for them and of course I had a strong.

We'll see you a bit later on in the program.

Thank you show >> And you can read full story on our website.

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>> A recent Supreme Court decision is raising concerns about racial profiling in federal law enforcement.

Has immigration raids ramp up.

But locally advocates a discriminatory policing is nothing new.

They believe the Chicago Police Department has a history of disproportionately targeting black and Latino people in shootings.

Traffic stops, arrests and more.

And some advocates worry the high court's ruling could potentially impact local policing.

Joining us now for more on racial profiling are Jasmine Smith, organizer with Chicago Alliance against Racist and political repression.

Kimberly Marshall, a retired Chicago police officer who now works in the mental health field.

Raf Donaldson, professor of law at the Chicago College of Law and Lauren Jones, director of criminal legal Systems at Impact for Equity.

Thanks to all of you for joining us.

Threat.

Want to start with you, please.

Because earlier this month the Supreme Court made a move that makes it easier for federal immigration agents to use ethnicity as a factor in deportations.

Could this ruling spill over into the way?

You know, Chicago police police is our communities.

Well, it could.

So the first thing to mention the Supreme Court actually didn't.

>> Issue any new opinion of any kind?

The Supreme Court just issued an order and said tempers running order issued by the judge out in Central California is not to go into effect.

It's to be stayed.

What happened is that one of the Supreme Court Justice Justice Kavanaugh issued his opinion about what he thought.

the order should go into effect.

Watch it be stayed.

And he mentioned that he thought that racial was okay and had been a approved by previous presidents by the Supreme Court local law enforcement over read with Justice Kavanaugh side let.

its officers use more racial profiling and perhaps they had before.

And of course, that would be, you know, something that if someone wanted to file a claim that would go to court later whole other thing that I hope we get into >> But Lauren, how do you think this could impact Chicago locally, given what we're hearing just today, the ongoing National Guard threats and ice operations in the area.

As you mention, a Chicago has a long history of racial profiling.

And there's been a lot of work done to try to remedy that insurance like the consent decree through policy changes.

>> And advocates organizers are really concerned that the rhetoric and this statement issued by the Supreme Court will have a trickle down effect on tempering some of those advancements you know, opening the door for more profiling to happening from officer to officer that is not remedied at a later date.

And so we are really trying to point to the city to double down on those reform efforts and to really amplify the commitment to the consent decree that has a ban on racial profiling that requires officers to report when they see someone racial profiling, another officer, racial profiling.

And, you know, these comments are in place.

We just need to be sure that we are setting examples as a progressive city to double down.

jasmine, you've had your own personal experiences with racial profiling.

What was that like?

What happened?

>> So it's and Rajan situation being racially profiled being the person was racially profiled.

But luckily my just recently we had periods with table, my organization, Kabul allies, a political repression.

We have volunteers.

They go out and committing these the table.

Information literature will be doing giving away free education and happy people take their rights.

People can get involved.

hold the police accountable stuff pulleys often times.

Abuse they authority and power and and try to scare.

I know our workers even myself, my address where we're going to lock you up.

You have to move.

Issue came to be here and you can do that.

But I know my rights like there's no crime.

Then we are committed giving out free information to the committees.

And of course, the it the situation that we had just a couple weeks ago.

It was we white officer.

It was a little back evening is part was no, we're not trying know.

I paused as well.

You just because he things at away like that.

Britain we want as I'm trying to be nice in guys.

You know, so it sounds like a new felt he was making unnecessary threat.

Seems like they're on this.

Everybody feel like it ever You know, just walking down the street, driving your car.

>> Yes, even drive my car a concealed carry.

poor meal lair that no probable but because they ran my plate Im a that could because they have carry.

pull me over and luckily black woman.

I wasn't like it was no anything.

And my daughter was in a car.

My grandson was in car, but I them what is the reason you put a meal with his?

They didn't you no democracy to carry.

Do you have your gun and, you know, the local?

So I mean, yes and no.

But what is a reasonable to me over concealed-carry?

Not that's not probable cause you guys to be pulled me my head.

I some night a night out my plate despite none of these things.

So they pick chills different ways in different making.

This is the what they want to do to encounter a week community that they feel party are not allowed board a rights law.

No, just look at using intimidation tactic, sickly, expect you wouldn't know how to how to respond.

All according to the Illinois Department of Transportation in Chicago, Black people made 45% of traffic stops by CPD in 2024.

>> But 31% of the city's population Latinos made up.

35 1% of all traffic stops by CPD compared to being 29% of the city's population.

That is all compared to white people making up 15% of stops while being 33% of the population.

Kimberly, want to come back to you or come to you for the first time.

What do you make of some of these ongoing federal threats given the city's long history of racial profiling?

It's unfortunate the Supreme Court, he's not willing to protect those rights that are already in place it's looking more and more like Dred Scott Supreme Court.

As far as I can now my experiences, Chicago police officer.

They don't teach that we shouldn't racial profile.

That's not in part of anything that we were taught in the police academy.

>> As a matter of fact, I was one police department when community policing when they first came out with community policing could use certain force from 1990, to >> So what I saw was that department policy is against that and then an agreement with that decree this free.

but individual officers because they are human beings, they bring their own bias in their own pages.

And so.

You have to I you know, you can't do total blank in and say, well, you know, all the police abandoned all with that.

>> Because the things that they tolerate it, it seems like as a whole is 5 punishing one officer for this and maybe not another officer for the same thing.

And then the individual officers making the decision who should be stopped and who is bad.

So who is good?

ends up being a lot to officer's discretion.

Lauren, why do you mean we just discussed some of these numbers that we got from Illinois Department of Transportation while we still see these disproportionate trends years after the consent decrees, implementation.

>> 6 and a half years.

Yeah.

So I can focus a little bit on just the traffic stop portion to branch off from that.

But there are policies that prevent officers from from engaging in racial bias, often people because of the color of the skin or where they live.

But we are seeing that there's justification is based on, you know, these are those crime in this area or, you know, I wasn't stopping them because they're black.

I'm stopping them because they have a broken tail light.

And so these justifications allowed 4 individual officers and a practices, a whole sort of bend, the policies, bend the Constitution, create loopholes there that allow for racial profiling, too, continue.

And we're seeing even just last year there was 4% increase of what he stops of the teenage drivers from 2020 through 2024.

And so you can see that some of those trends coming from the federal level are being reflected in these individual officers decisions to continue to racially profile and commit excessive stops without seeing any real public safety benefits from those stops.

So wrap.

As we discussed earlier, the Supreme Court decision sort of loosens, you know, whether or not it can happen in can allow officers to sort on the federal level anyways.

What a factor that into their decision-making when choosing to stop someone or pursue someone but because the burden of proof lies with the person who believes that they've been profiled, if that should happen, how does one prove racial profiling in a court of law?

>> Yeah, pretty racial profiling is very difficult because the Supreme Court doesn't allow one to bring justice to court from Ation of the sort that you just mentioned.

So mentioning that people are disproportionately stopped or arrested.

That actually is insufficient evidence because the Supreme Court has that they don't they don't accept that.

That actually proved the actual impact to bring some sort of claim against them.

that's really difficult.

So I think that that's that's one of the barriers that we face legally.

The thing that the plaintiffs brought in the case reached this report.

It was stated instead of bringing evidence, particularly about them being racially profiled.

Instead what the plaintiffs argued is that there wasn't suspicion evidence reasonable suspicion before the stops and the only reason why they could have been stopped as for racist reasons.

You don't have to prove the resort and all you have to prove in situation.

And just wasn't reasonable suspicion in the first And that's what they attempted And despite a favorable treatment by the district court, that report did not a lot of that same thing as saying racial profiling did happen sorry, Kimberly.

So you know, you mentioned that when you are serving on the police force, he weren't, you know, of course, taught to racially profile people.

But was there any training on not racially profiling people on unconscious bias?

Well, they did have sensitivity training one of the things that I want to mention that I think is important is in 1968.

>> Most departments, including the Chicago Police Department acted a program called Salt and Pepper.

What they found was that the backgrounds of the white officers in the black officers, they didn't know each other.

They didn't know about personally.

Make here.

We love their.

That was not a lot up integrating.

And so they started the pepper teams so that the white officers in the black officers could learn more about each other and about each of this community.

It was successful.

I remember officers when I came that border retiring that did work in pepper teams and that it was effective and they did.

They did get to know the black officer and his community and his family better.

So they got a better understand we're almost out of time.

Just want get the last Because along those lines, right, like the police department tried something, then how can police better address crime without disproportionately targeting communities of color?

>> We'll The police have to have mend the number one.

The parties have to come in week.

>> B, if Aaron, on the side of justice and giving people their due process and not by a sleeve.

Judging them off of parents stuff like that.

We have the issue report is not being held accountable.

So we have to look at right now.

More than ever like the superintendent has the bow to address the lot of these cars that are still on the force.

That is they as calls harm to the community.

So you started dressing the rule of issues and clean and now house.

They need to be a lot better.

5 communities in contention was the trust of Foley's.

So it a problem.

Hold them accountable.

They have to be fired.

All right.

the time for grant will have to leave it Not something we're all going to solve right now, but the word lies ahead.

Our thanks to.

>> Jasmine Smith, Kimberly Marshall, RAF Donaldson and Lauren Jones.

And we're back with more of our W T Tw News.

Special on police and policing in Chicago right after this.

Chicago taxpayers have paid nearly 300 million dollars over a 6 year period because of repeated misconduct by some police officers.

>> In all 272 officers were named in at least 2 lawsuits that were settled by Chicago officials or resulted in a jury verdict paid by taxpayers.

That is in spite of efforts to rein in cops who repeatedly violate the rules.

Reporters Jared, her techie and header.

Sharon join us now with what they found.

Jared, how big of a problem is the city facing from repeated allegations of police misconduct that result in lawsuits, cases involving repeat officers cost taxpayers.

75.8 million dollars.

That's about.

>> 85% of the total from 2024. and more broadly, about 60% of the nearly half a billion dollar total over the past 6 years during the consent decree.

And it's this totals kind of allow us to look at the high cost of a vehicle pursuits and wrongful convictions.

And while many officers in these groups have retired in some of the older cases, about 9 of the officers still made our remain on the force 8 of them still in Chicago and one located in suburban Oswego.

Okay, Heather, you focused on one officer in particular just that receipt only white.

Well, he has been named in in number of lawsuits over the past 6 years that have cost the city a half a million dollars, including one.

>> That was tied to the death of an Indianapolis man who he and another officer shot to death amid.

>> A brawl in Mount Greenwood that exacerbated racial tensions.

Now officer tree.

See, although he is still paid by taxpayers actually hasn't worked a single shift as a police officer since 2018.

He has been on long-term disability.

Earning 75% of his salary.

The number of officers who are on long-term disability or medical leave has become a source of frustration for City Council members who are struggling to close a deficit of 1.0 1 5 billion dollars next year.

They say they're simply too many officers on disability or on leave for that to continue.

Jerry, this is the 4th time that you've looked at the data and analyze its cost to taxpayers.

Is the city being transparent about the cost of lawsuits that named the same officers repeatedly >> he the impact of police misconduct is evident.

The city is spoken for years about the risk that they're trying mitigate a number of these cases.

The publication of this data is a move towards transparency in the city deserves a small pat on the back for this.

But we really have to dig up some of the specific names of officers and badge name so that we can identify everybody and this kind of a makes it so that researchers and reporters like me have to track this information down to sort of unravel these mysteries.

You know, it's going to be important to kind of identify some of these risk moving forward for the city.

>> Heather White, don't city officials step in though and, you know, put a stop to those officers who are already costing taxpayers money in the city, stopped him from doing it Well, the federal court order known as the consent decree requires the city to do just that.

Not only are they supposed to be tracking lawsuits that named the same officer over and over again.

They're supposed to be an early warning system that gives department's leaders the heads up that some officers are having trouble following the rules might need.

Some retraining might need to be taken off the street.

Despite years of effort, there's no timeline for that system to be in place, which is significantly over Kate Commissioner own gender Thanks to both.

Thanks for this.

And you can read Jared and Heathers full story on our website.

It is all at W T Tw Dot com slash news.

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