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Alexandra Block, Director of Criminal Legal Systems and Policing Project. Heidi Dalenberg, Interim Legal Director . Will Dority, Paralegal. Kevin Fee, Director of Illinois Constitution and Democracy Project. Michelle García, Deputy Legal Director. Rebecca Glenberg, Chief Supervising Litigation Counsel: First Amendment
Director, Criminal Legal System & Policing Project at ACLU of Illinois · Experience: ACLU of Illinois · Education: Yale Law School · Location: Greater Chicago Area · 365 connections on LinkedIn.
On today’s episode, we feature an interview with Alexandra Block from the ACLU of Illinois about their lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department’s highly questionable traffic stop practices. The ACLU alleges that the CPD pulls people over exclusively to search them and their care for drugs and guns.
Alexandra Block is the director of the Criminal Legal System and Policing Reform Project at the ACLU of Illinois. The Sun-Times welcomes letters to the editor and op-eds. See our guidelines.
The following can be attributed to Alexandra Block, Director of Criminal Legal Systems and Policing Project at the ACLU of Illinois: Data over many years shows persistent racial and ethnic disparities in whom CPD officers stop, frisk and search.
Alexandra Block is senior supervising attorney for policing and criminal legal system reform, ACLU of Illinois. The reasons behind crime trends are a complex mix of social, economic, educational and other factors and are highly unlikely to be caused by a single policy revision.
“Racist and violent policing, unfortunately despite the consent decree, is still the norm being experienced by people on the ground in the city,” Alexandra Block, an attorney with the ACLU of Illinois, said during a hearing Tuesday.
“As our clients have made clear in their complaint, discriminatory traffic stops are an urgent problem in Chicago,” said Alexandra Block, director of the Criminal Legal System and Policing Project at the ACLU of Illinois who represents the Wilkins plaintiffs.
ACLU of Illinois lawyer Alexandra Block, the lead attorney on the case, said the Chicago Police Department has never offered an explanation as to why there is such a disparity in the rate of stops.
By Alexandra Block, Director of Criminal Legal Systems and Policing Project. The Chicago Police Department shrouds in secrecy its use of surveillance technologies to monitor social media. This secrecy extends to powerful tools to scrape and analyze information obtained from people’s social media accounts.