(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A non-profit organization has launched an updated database of police misconduct complaints saying they wanted to get it out before next week's Democratic National Convention.
Andrew Fan, executive director at the Invisible Institute, says they wanted the data to be out there before the convention.
He noted that many ordinary Chicagoans have more encounters with police during protests when police are called in for high intensity events.
The Invisible Institute, a non-profit based on Chicago's South Side, says there was a surge in complaints against Chicago Police four years ago regarding how officers handled the George Floyd protests.
And now with another "high intensity" event, the Democratic Convention, coming to town, the non-profit updated their data project of misconduct complaint records.
“So I think that's one of the reasons we know that this happened in 2020. We know that our tool was one of many things that people found useful at the time. And we thought it was important to just continue to make sure that the data is updated and people have access to it,” Fan said.
The Invisible Institute says its online data project now holds more than 2.5 million allegations of misconduct by Chicago Police from 1988-2023.
Chicago Police and the City of Chicago say they have been training for more than a year for the Democratic National Convention. Additionally, they say they will respect the First Amendment rights of protesters and say the city is prepared for a peaceful Democratic convention.
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