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1    AN ACT concerning police procedure.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Police
5Sensitivity Task Force Act.
 
6    Section 5. Purposes.
7    (a) The General Assembly acknowledges that the 2010 Traffic
8Stop Statistics Report prepared by the Illinois Department of
9Transportation indicates that the number of vehicle stops has
10declined in recent years but the number of consent searches
11performed and citations issued to minorities has increased.
12    (b) The General Assembly acknowledges that minorities
13typically experience intimidation to allow law enforcement
14officers to search their vehicles, trunk space, containers, and
15person, because of the authoritative relationship displayed by
16police.
17    (c) The General Assembly acknowledges that although
18consent searches have proven to be very useful tools in
19reducing the availability of prohibited items such as guns and
20drugs, the Illinois Department of Transportation report
21indicates that a disparity exists and more specifically, that
22police officers misinterpret signs of suspicion in minorities
23more than they do for Caucasians.

 

 

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1    (d) Leaders within the law enforcement community have
2recognized that the stop, question, and search process has
3created a problem of public trust and undermines police
4legitimacy.
5    (e) Existing policies regarding consent searches are
6inconsistent among law enforcement agencies and fail to address
7all elements of the stop and search process.
8    (f) The General Assembly acknowledges that the key to
9achieving policing policies based on mutual respect,
10neutrality, and trust between the officers and the citizens
11they detain is the elimination of bias, discrimination, and
12incompetence with law enforcement.
13    (g) The General Assembly believes that a Task Force should
14be created to investigate instances of racial disparity related
15to traffic stops and make recommendations concerning the
16revision of racial sensitivity curriculum offered by police
17training academies.
 
18    Section 10. Police Sensitivity Task Force.
19    (a) The Police Sensitivity Task Force (hereinafter
20referred to as the Task Force) is created and shall be composed
21of the following members who shall serve without compensation
22for their service as members of the Task Force:
23        (1) two members of the House of Representatives
24    appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives;
25        (2) two members of the House of Representatives

 

 

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1    appointed by the Minority Leader of the House of
2    Representatives;
3        (3) two members of the Senate appointed by the
4    President of the Senate;
5        (4) two members of the Senate appointed by the Minority
6    Leader of the Senate;
7        (5) the Executive Director of the Illinois Law
8    Enforcement Training Standards Board or his or her
9    designee;
10        (6) the Director of State Police or his or her
11    designee;
12        (7) the Chairperson of the Illinois Human Rights
13    Commission;
14        (8) The Superintendent of the Chicago Police
15    Department or his or her designee;
16        (9) the Sheriff of Cook County or his or her designee;
17        (10) a university professor teaching in the field of
18    law enforcement appointed by the Speaker of the House of
19    Representatives; and
20        (11) a university professor teaching in the field of
21    law enforcement appointed by the President of the Senate.
22    (b) The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the
23House of Representatives shall each appoint a joint chair to
24the Task Force.
25    (c) The Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board
26shall provide administrative support to the Task Force.

 

 

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1    (d) The Task Force shall:
2        (1) investigate instances of racial disparity related
3    to traffic stops;
4        (2) obtain testimony from persons who believed that
5    they were victims of racial disparity in traffic stops and
6    from law enforcement officers;
7        (3) study past practices relating to traffic stops; and
8        (4) make recommendations to the Illinois Law
9    Enforcement Training Standards Board for suggested
10    revisions to existing racial sensitivity curriculum, and
11    to municipal, county, and State law enforcement agencies to
12    address the problem of racial disparity related to traffic
13    stops.
14    (e) The Task Force shall hold public hearings and shall
15issue a written report of its findings and recommendations to
16the General Assembly on or before January 1, 2014; and that
17upon filing its report the Task Force is dissolved.