Chicago Set to Pay Nearly $5 Million to Settle a Lawsuit Over Police “Stop-and-Frisk” Tactics

Chicago taxpayers will pay nearly $5 million to settle a 2015 lawsuit accusing the city of violating people’s civil rights when officers used so-called “stop-and-frisk” tactics to enforce anti-gang and anti-drug loitering ordinances.

The vast majority of that money will go to pay legal fees for the attorneys who filed the lawsuit, after city attorneys were able to successfully avoid having to pay damages for as many as 2.5 million such stops made since 2013, and instead will pay a combined $112,500 in damages to five specific plaintiffs.

City attorneys told aldermen at a City Council Finance Committee meeting on Monday that a class action lawsuit filed in 2015 sought damages for police officers’ use of protective pat-downs, commonly referred to as “stop-and-frisk,” while enforcing the city’s anti-gang and anti-drug loitering ordinances.

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