CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Chicago's Inspector General said the police department's search warrant files are "incomplete, paper-based and decentralized", but the Inspector General said police may now be on the right track to making a change.
The Inspector General has been looking into the Chicago Police Department's handling of search warrants since the 2019 debacle when social worker Anjanette Young was naked and handcuffed after police made a raid on the wrong home.
Now - in the Inspector General's final report on the police department's system of handling search warrants, the IG says records have been "housed by individual units and, at times, individual members" of the police department, and that "unsuccessful residential search warrants were marked by inconsistent and insufficient pre-service investigations."
The IG report noted that in January, the Chicago Police Department posted draft revisions to its search warrant policy, and that even though the revisions haven't taken effect yet, they may improve the police department's system of dealing with search warrants.
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