Police

MKE Police Keep Stopping and Frisking in Violation of 2018 Settlement Agreement

The Department continues to fall short of the Settlement Agreement requirement that fewer than 15 percent of frisks fail to show individualized, objective, and articulable reasonable suspicion that the subject is armed and dangerous. Our analysis of officer-written narratives indicates that 86.8 percent of frisks are insufficiently justified. The narratives lack the specific details necessary…