[Peace-discuss] Chesley crime?

[Brian Dolinar]

The database is called ARMS (Area-Wide Records Management System)
and was developed with the help of the University of Illinois.

BD

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> The database thing really sticks in my craw, the idea that that's what the
> Chpgn police were after from the outset, and Brian Chesley's subsequent (and
> ill-advised) behavior just played into their hands. I heard a panel
> matter-of-factly discussing it (database) on C-Span as the recommended
> procedure on a national level for those STOPPED by police and could not
> believe what I was hearing (not everyone on the panel concurred, but nobody
> was outraged either).
>  --Jenifer
>
>
> *Bob Illyes <illyes at uiuc.edu>* wrote:
>
> It is easy, Shirley, to think that the Brian Chesley case makes sense, if
> each step of the process is inspected without looking at the whole. But we
>
> must always ask if the full means used are in proportion to the
> seriousness
> of the offense.
>
> Brian was lawfully leaving scheduled park district basketball. Officer
> Davis, for reasons that have never been adequately explained, decided that
>
> Brian, out of all of the kids in the park at that time, should be included
>
> in a police database of the area, and called for reinforcements when Brian
>
> declined.
>
> For this minor infraction, Brian was roughed up, arrested, charged and
> tried. This is absolutely out of proportion to the "crime".
>
> I don't see a plan here. What I do see is that Chief Finney needs to
> tighten up procedures so that this sort of over-reaction is made a lot
> less
> likely than it is.
>
> Bob
>
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