Craig Futterman Part of Coalition Demanding Overhaul of Chicago Police Search Warrant Process
Attorneys Demand Chicago Police Stop Its ‘Abusive’ Search Warrant Tactics, Or They’ll Take CPD To Federal Court
A team of lawyers instrumental in the Chicago Police consent decree is demanding an overhaul of the department’s search warrant process, saying its methods are unconstitutional.
The Coalition’s 14-page enforcement action letter demands the department stop its pattern of “abusive” search warrant tactics or the team will take the city to federal court.
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“CPD is still continuing to break into families’ homes, point guns at little kids,” said Craig Futterman, a civil rights attorney with the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic at University of Chicago, who’s also behind the Coalition’s latest enforcement action against the city. “CPD continues to treat kids, Black and Brown families, like they’re less than.”
The Coalition behind the enforcement action is comprised of Futterman; Sheila Bedi, an attorney with the Bluhm Legal Clinic and professor at Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law; and Karen Sheley, director of the ACLU of Illinois Police Practices Project.
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