ACLU "Blindsided" by Fardon

Well, we can pretty much assume that Fardon kept his mouth shut and prosecutors out of City Hall because he knew he'd make his masters unhappy if he got too nosey. His exit letter was amusing as hell though:

• The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday blasted former U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon for what it characterized as a "blindsided attack" on a 2015 agreement curtailing the Chicago Police Department's use of stop-and-frisk measures.
  
  In an open letter released to the media after he left office Monday, Fardon said the ACLU's settlement had "swung the pendulum hard" away from pro-active law enforcement by "telling cops if you go talk to those kids on the corner, you're going to have to take 40 minutes to fill out a form, and you're going to have to give them a receipt with your badge number on it."
  
  Fardon said the new procedures for street stops, as Chicago police call them, were a key reason for the spike in violence that began in early 2016 and had a chilling effect on many police officers who "no longer wanted to wear the risk of stopping suspects."

No shit? Isn't that what we have been saying for over a year now? And our readers? And the unions? And anyone with half a fucking brain?

The ACLU was none too pleased:

• In response Tuesday, Karen Sheley, the police practices director for the ACLU of Illinois, said Fardon's opinions were out of line with the Justice Department's own investigation that found widespread constitutional abuses of citizens, particularly in low-income minority neighborhoods where the majority of street stops occur.
  
  Fardon also "wildly exaggerated" the time needed to fill out the form and ignored "the real impact and harm of these stops," which occurred far too often and under suspect or unconstitutional circumstances, Sheley said in an emailed statement.

This from someone who never filled out a card - obviously. And who actually has the audacity to claim the DOJ report, which was written by ACLU flunkies, matches the ACLU findings for some odd reason.

The "real impact and harm" rings hollow in the face of nearly 800 murders and over 4,000 maimings - actual harm as opposed to a minor inconvenience. If documentation was better, we'd bet that fully half of the "unconstitutional" stops would fall within Constitutional limitations. ISP and numerous suburban departments seem to do fine with an Investigatory Stop Report that is similar to our old Contact Card, without 76 boxes to fill out. How many of them are under Federal Consent Decrees again? None? Wow.