The report comes almost a year to the day following the release of footage showing Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke shooting and killing 17-year-old Laquan McDonald on Pulaski Road.

But instead of focusing on high-profile cases of police abuse, the authors of this report – University of Chicago Law Professor Craig Futterman, Youth/Police Project Director Chaclyn Hunt and Invisible Institute Executive Director Jamie Kalven – looked at more “routine” encounters between police and black teens.

“Too often, public conversations about police accountability tend to exclude the important perspectives of young black people,” Hunt said in a press release. “Yet they’re the ones most affected by police practices. Every student we work with lives with the constant possibility of being stopped, searched and treated like a criminal.”

In drafting the report, the authors say they simply listened to the students – all ages 14 to 18 – as they explained their various interactions with police.

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