"Chicago police will begin ordering suspected gang members off the streets in expanded
sections of high-crime neighborhoods, Supt. Philip Cline said Friday." Does anyone
know where to find the current anti-gang loitering ordinance?
1. 'Chicago police to broaden area for loitering arrests', Tribune, May 2
2. CPD news release on Operation Clean
3. Brief overview of Supreme Court case on Chicago's anti-gang loitering laws
4. Supreme Court of the United States: CITY OF CHICAGO v. MORALES et al.
5. 'ACLU Questions Chicago's Plan to Return to Failed "Anti-Gang Loitering"
Strategy', January 11, 2000
1.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-0405020064may02,1,7510122.story?coll=chi-newslocalchicago-hed
"The loitering ordinance has been challenged as unconstitutional. The city created the
ordinance in 2000 after a federal court struck down an older ordinance for giving
police too much discretion to target suspected gang members."
2.
http://egov.cityofchicago.org/city/webportal/portalContentItemAction.do?BV_SessionID=@@@@0305537644.1083516437@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdadclgdlkmgjcefecelldffhdfgn.0&contentOID=536889520&contenTypeName=COC_EDITORIAL&topChannelName=HomePage
"The Perez School community, along with other residents, worked with police to
designate stretches of Throop Street as gang hot spots. The school also allowed
students to gather outside the building to watch the start of Operation Clean, and
learn a valuable lesson about community involvement and teamwork."
3.
http://www.ndsn.org/summer99/courts3.html
"In a highly critical dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia said, "I would trade my rights
to loiter any day in exchange for the liberation of my neighborhood." Justice Clarence
Thomas wrote a separate dissent, joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist. "
4.
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/97-1121.ZS.html
"The State Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the ordinance violates due process in
that it is impermissibly vague on its face and an arbitrary restriction on personal
liberties."
5.
http://www.aclu.org/CriminalJustice/CriminalJustice.cfm?ID=7786&c=46
"Ironcally, the University of Chicago study demonstrates conclusively that some
violent crime rates actually increased in the police districts where the previous gang
loitering law was most vigorously enforced. As a startling example of this irony,
murders citywide fell by 12 percent between 1992 to 1995 (the years during which the
previous ordinance was being enforced) but increased by 3 percent in the police
districts that were targeted for heavy enforcement under the loitering ordinance."
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