Surprisingly (/s) the bill mandating these reports doesn't have any steps for remedying falsification of these records so it seems these acts of subterfuge could fall under 720 ILCS 5/32-8, which classifies them as Class 3 or 4 felonies and would make any person found guilty ineligible to work in government thereafter (in addition to any jail time). I won't hold my breath waiting for the AG to take down a rampant crime syndicate
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That's 550 [apx] stops a day in a force of about 12,000 [apx.]
Those stops never get reported across the CPD radio net, either.
The rate of stops conducted off-the-books has increased under Superintendent Larry Snelling, even as he has positioned himself as an agent of reform who is moving the Chicago Police Department away from its longstanding strategy of using traffic stops to find illegal guns and tamp down on crime. In June, Snelling reported traffic stops were down by about 87,000 over the same time last year. But behind that reduction is a pattern of thousands of unreported police encounters, which accounted for one-third of all traffic stops over the first seven months of Snelling’s tenure.
Records obtained by Bolts and Injustice Watch show police department officials know the traffic stop data they report to state regulators are an undercount. Internally, the department tracks stops using police radio data that doesn’t rely on officers filling out the state-mandated forms.