CHICAGO — A task force looking into into ways to reform the Chicago Police Department released its damning report Wednesday, and used quite a few statistics to show the department's racial biases.
The Police Accountability Task Force said police must come to terms with these issues if it is to ever recover its standing in some communities. (Read the task force report here.)
Here are some figures included in the task force's report.
Note: Blacks make up 32.9 percent of the city's population, with whites representing 31.7 percent and Hispanics 28.9 percent. The rest are Asians and others. According to 2016 Police Department budget documents, the sworn police staff is 52 percent white, 23 percent African-American, 22 percent Hispanic and 3 percent Asian.
1. Police shooting victims are overwhelmingly black. Since 2008, 74 percent of the 404 people killed or injured in police shootings were black, and 17 percent were Hispanics. White residents accounted for 9 percent of shooting victims.
2. Blacks and Hispanics accounted for nearly all police stops in the summer of 2014 that did not end in arrest. In stops that didn't lead to arrests, called investigatory stops, Chicago police detained more than 250,000 people in the summer of 2014.
Of those, 72 percent of those stopped were African-American; 17 percent were Hispanic; and about 9 percent were white.
3. Black people make up the majority of investigative stops in white neighborhoods.
The Near North Police District covers Lincoln Park and other Near North Side neighborhoods and is 75 percent white and 9 percent black. Yet, blacks made up 58 percent of all stops in the district, and whites accounted for 28 percent of the stops in 2014.
It's similar in the Town Hall District, which covers Lakeview, Lincoln Square and other North Side neighborhoods. The district is 75 percent white and 6.6 percent black, yet African-Americans accounted for 51 percent of all stops in the district in 2014.
4. Officer complaints filed by white people are much more likely to be validated than ones filed by blacks.
There have been over 11,500 officer complaints filed with the department and the Independent Police Review Authority since 2011. Black residents filed 61 percent of those complaints, while whites filed 21 percent of the complaints.
Of the complaints that were validated in some way, 25 percent were filed by blacks, while 58 percent were filed by whites.
That means that white residents file significantly fewer officer complaints than blacks, yet their complaints were substantiated at a far greater percentage than the complaints of black residents.
"The police oversight system itself is not immune to racial bias," the task force report reads.
5. Black people are much more likely to be shot with stun guns by police than white people.
The numbers are almost identical to the breakdown of those shot by police. Police have shot people with stun guns 1,435 times since 2012, and 74 percent of those shot with the stun guns were black; 13 percent were Hispanic; and 8 percent were white.
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