Miraculous CPD Data Production
The CPD was able to produce a miraculous data set to CJP as part of our ongoing lawsuit that they told us in writing they did not possess. This directly contradicted what CJP learned from sources within the CPD years ago so we sued to make sure what they were telling us in writing […]
Sun-Times Endorses CPD’s Propaganda Dashboard
The CPD’s Gun Offender dashboard is nothing more than overt propaganda that the Sun-Times Editorial Board, led by editorial page editor Tom McNamee, endorsed. That’s right folks, the Sun-Times didn’t verify the data within the dashboard and hold the CPD accountable for all the data they left out or completely miss-classified but instead they just […]
CPD Internal Affairs FOIA
This FOIA request targeting the Internal Affairs Division of the Chicago Police Department is one of the last requests that we will be filing as part of our 2017 FOIA Campaign. Please provide the following records in machine readable digital format in accordance with the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. A. Provide all data related […]
FOIA Seeking CPD Staffing Analysis
On September 26, 2016 the Chicago Justice Project send the following request under Illinois’ Freedom of Information Act to the Chicago Police Department. Our request seeks to propel the Chicago Police Department to produce a copy of the “top to bottom analysis” they claim to have completed and that was the basis for Mayor Emanuel’s […]
Police Staffing Studies
Access the 2010 Chicago Police Department’s manpower study and a collection of links for police staffing studies available online from across America. Here we provide a list of links to police manpower and staffing studies from around the United States. The jurisdictions range from small towns to large cities. If you want to read a […]
CPD FOIA IPRA Data
We replicated the FOIA we sent to IPRA regarding accessing digital stored data related to complaints against officers for a single month. On Monday January 12th, CJP filed a FOIA request with the Chicago Police Department seeking all data held maintained by the CPD related to complaints filed against officers to the Independent Police Review […]
Pot Tickets
What can data from criminal justice agencies tell us about how the Chicago / Cook County criminal justice system enforces state laws regarding this gateway drug, pot. I pretty sure that if we were able to access the data in question, it could tell us everything we need to know. The problem is that data […]
NATO & All the Unanswered Questions
Well Chicago, the long awaited NATO summit is almost upon us. With all of the reporting surrounding the closing of streets and the disruptions to everyday life, little attention has been paid to what is coming Chicago’s way and whether or not the Chicago Police and their allies are ready for even a relatively light […]
Closing Districts
It is becoming clearer and clearer that Chicago has a great need for the success of CJP’s Citizen Open Data Access Project and the greatly increased access to criminal justice system data that it will provide.” One of the new administration’s goals is to close three police district stations and merge those districts with neighboring […]
Pot Arrests as Important Tool for CPD or Useless Waste of Money and Resources
It is imperative that communities understand the police arrest for purposes other than prosecution. Chicago has been the beneficiary of some recent great reporting (link 1, link 2) by Ben Javorsky and Mick Dumke regarding the seemingly meaningless arrests made for low levels of marijuana possession by the Chicago Police Department. The reality is that […]