The revision comes as executions of police officers' search warrants have fallen under increasing scrutiny.
Body camera footage shows Chicago police officers conducting an errant raid on social worker Anjanette Young’s home on Feb. 21, 2019.
In the midst of a number of high-profile botched police raids, the Cook County state’s attorney’s office is requiring officers who ask a prosecutor to review search warrants for probable cause to report back on the outcome, a change meant to increase accountability for officers executing searches, the office announced Friday.
The office is making the policy change because the “intrusion that search warrants legally authorize justifies greater disclosure and transparency,” State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said in a news release.The revision comes as executions of search warrants by police officers have fallen under increasing scrutiny, particularly in the wake of the raid on the home of Anjanette Young in 2019. Chicago police officers wrongly raided Young’s residence and handcuffed her while she was undressed.
The prosecutor’s office said in the statement that it sought to change search warrant policy “in response to evidence of a search warrant location not being fully vetted, resulting in the wrong location being raided.”Currently, police officers can ask an assistant state’s attorney to review a search warrant request and approve it if it contains sufficient probable cause. It would then go to a judge who would decide whether to sign off on it.
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