Darin LaHood is also considering his party's nomination.

The Chicago Police Department is today unveiling its new proposal for traffic stops.

The policy would continue to allow police officers to pull over drivers for minor violations in order to find evidence of other unrelated crimes.

Our Heather Sharon joins us now with more.

Heather, this proposed policy.

This represents the first time CPD officials have acknowledged that officers are empowered to stop drivers in Chicago on a pretext in order to search for evidence of a crime.

So first, what are pretextual stops and why are they so controversial?

Well, Chicago police made nearly 300,000 traffic stops last year that they reported to state officials nearly 65% of those were based on officers observation of >> a broken headlight are broken.

Tail it or expired license and registration stickers on your license plate.

Police reform advocates say those kind of stops to not make the city any safer.

And in fact, disproportionately target black and Latino drivers.

And they said that those kind of stop should be banned.

Today, the Chicago Police Department said no, those stops are ineffective.

Crime fighting tool.

And as long as officers balance the need for fairness with that sort of investigatory need, they are appropriate to continue to be used.

So this policy, it's not yet final.

This is a proposal in the city's police Oversight Community Commission for Public safety and accountability, though they're objecting to some key parts of it.

Take us through those areas of disagreement.

Well, they think pretextual stops should be banned in most cases, which sets up a clear conflict that will have to be resolved before this policy is finalized.

They also want stricter restrictions on when officers can search cars or trucks, even with the permissions of drivers, those would be big changes to the current proposal will traced to see how that plays out.

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What's next?

Who has the final say?

Well, it's complicated.

The commission has the power to set policy for the police department, but 10 months ago that CPD agreed to allow traffic stops to be covered by the consent decree, which means this policy must pass muster with the monitoring team overseeing those reform.

The Illinois Attorney general's office.

And it will be the federal judge overseeing this reform push that will have the final say in resolving any sort of impasse uncomplicated at all.