This story is awful in its own right -- but also, I need people to stop and think about the underlying "bad tip" aka the reason the City refuses to require CPD to give people phone calls w/in an hour of arrest. + https://twitter.com/royalpratt/status/1338714706752790528

As everyone in the city should be aware by now - but we keep pretending otherwise - the Chicago Police Department has a history of holding people in incommunicado detention for little/nothing and saying the price of freedom is a tip about someone with a gun. +

See this part of the story? What do you think this is talking about? Someone WILLINGLY getting in the back seat of a squad car and riding around with police to perform a proactive report of an issue of concern? You think this is what happens if you dial 911? LOL. +

The reason police don't want to write down the reason they couldn't let someone make a phone call is that they have no intention of stopping practices like these, which are custom-designed to produce many bad tips. Which of course should not result in a raid, but do. +

But, if you care about police being required to follow the law? Even the "good tips" are bad tips. /end

(background for those not following the phone-call ordinance issue) https://blockclubchicago.org/2020/12/11/lightfoot-completely-guts-proposal-to-let-people-in-police-custody-make-a-prompt-phone-call-frustrated-aldermen-say/