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CHICAGO (AP) — The family of a Chicago man killed when plainclothes police officers fired their guns nearly 100 times during a traffic stop filed a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday, accusing the ...
The family of a Chicago man killed when plainclothes police officers fired their guns nearly 100 times during a traffic stop filed a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday, accusing the department of ...
The ordinance banning low-level pretextual stops banned police from pulling people over for only secondary violations. Those violations were for having registration that expired under 60 days ...
Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), was a unanimous United States Supreme Court decision [1] that "declared that any traffic offense committed by a driver was a legitimate legal basis for a stop."
"Of those 150 cases, 91 (61%) brought no felony charges," the report read. "In 119 pretextual stop cases where the final outcome was known, ten ended in conviction, of which only two were felonies.
When police stop and search a pedestrian, this is commonly known as a stop and frisk. When police stop an automobile, this is known as a traffic stop. If the police stop a motor vehicle on minor infringements in order to investigate other suspected criminal activity, this is known as a pretextual stop. Additional rules apply to stops that occur ...
Pretextual stops are traffic stops conducted by law enforcement for a traffic violation, but the purpose is for the officer to investigate an unrelated crime that the driver was not stopped for. A law enforcement officer can learn about a potential suspect from a traffic stop by identifying the driver, engaging in conversation with them, and ...
One outlawed so-called pretextual traffic stops, including for minor violations such as a broken taillight. An officer’s incident report said Nichols was stopped for driving into oncoming traffic.