The Chicago police department and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reached an agreement on Friday on the number of reforms to its stop-and-frisk standards, five months after the latter branded the former's number of street stops "shocking."
Part of the agreement states that the Chicago police department will continue to monitor its investigatory street stops and protective pat-downs not limited to those that do not result in an arrest.
Furthermore, the department agreed to amplify training of its officers to make sure they will only make stops when they had "reasonable suspicion of criminal conduct," as well as carry out protective pat-downs only if they are reasonably suspicious that the citizen is "armed and dangerous," according to the Chicago Tribune.
Additionally, former U.S. Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys, whom both sides have chosen in order to help settle the matter, will be the one to give public reports twice a year on the stops and pat-downs in order to make sure the city is following all of the legal conditions.
"It's not going to be a change in the actual way that we stop people, it's going to be a change in the way that we record the stop," Superintendent Garry McCarthy said during a news conference held on Friday.
McCarthy also added that he was pleased that his department was coerced into taking action by a court order and hopes that other police departments all around the country would follow suit, according to FOX News.
It was first reported in March that the ACLU discovered that Chicago police made the most number of stop-and-frisk cases, reaching to quarter of a million from May to August of last year, which is higher than the number of stops police in New York City ever did.
