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Police respond to emergency calls in white neighborhoods faster than they do to those in neighborhoods with high minority populations, a lawsuit filed Thursday alleges.
The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Central Austin Neighborhood Association, challenges the way the Chicago Police Department deploys its officers.
“This disparity has been going on for many, many years. We want it to be addressed now. We think that it requires judicial review in order to get a remedy,” said Harvey Grossman, the ACLU of Illinois’ legal director.
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The groups say published reports in the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago News Cooperative have finally given it the police deployment data that the department has been fighting to keep secret. In particular, the civil rights group says the most recent redeployments under Supt. Garry McCarthy have done little good.
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