Following a story we broke Thursday night on CBS 2, Chicago's Arab American community is demanding police end the use of suspicious activity reporting after a groundbreaking study found the reports were being used as tool for racial profiling.
On Friday, the Arab American Action Network officially launched their Campaign to End Racial Profiling.
The AAAN got their hands on 235"suspicious activity reports", or SARs for short, from the Chicago Police Department and Illinois State Police – made between 2016 and 2019. They discovered a disturbing pattern. And it's not just Arab Americans – about 70 percent of all reports identified people of color. Many of the reports were for everyday activities like taking photos in public — or just speaking another language.
"The proof is in the pudding, right?" Sankari said."Why is it that 50 percent of these reports, over 50, are targeting less than 1.5 percent of Illinois state population from a particular nationality or religious group? There's no answer."
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