Study: Civilian complaints ‘a valid predictor’ of police misconduct

[Elderberry]

Chicago Sun Times By Sam Charles  09/10/2018

Two local legal scholars who examined thousands of police misconduct allegations have determined that taking those complaints more seriously “could substantially reduce the most serious incidents of police misconduct.”

Northwestern University law professor Max Schanzenbach and Kyle Rozema of the University of Chicago examined 50,000 misconduct complaints lodged against members of the CPD between 2002 and 2014.

They found that “citizen allegations are a valid predictor of serious misconduct” by police officers.

In a soon-to-be-published paper, the two write that, when it comes to racking up misconduct complaints, an officer’s assigned district does not matter.

More: https://chicago.suntimes.com/?post_type=cst_article&p=1352834

[goatprairie]

While not condoning police misconduct, I would say police misconduct is less than one percent of the problems afflicting black Americans.