Data Brief: Rape Kit Backlog – What We Do and Don’t Know
The first step to solving the rape kit backlog crisis is to understand the actual extent of the problem. Unfortunately, decades of badly-kept records, unclear legislation, and a lack of transparency has made discerning the exact amount of “backlogged” kits in the state of Illinois difficult. In 2015, the Accountability Project, an initiative by the […]
FOIA: CPD VAW Case Statuses
This FOIA request is seeking case statuses on what are traditionally called violence against women (VAW)crimes. These types of cases fall under two categories: domestic violence and sexual assault cases. VAW crimes rarely if ever make the news and when they do they make the it is usually to exploit the crimes for the […]
FOIA: OEMC Data Update
This is CJP’s every six month update to our data warehouse of call level data related to police call for service data. This data is created whenever a person places a call to 911 seeking to request police services. This data is colloquial know in the justice world as police call for service data. […]
FOIA: OEMC 2018 Missing Data
Here is a FOIA seeking missing data we filed on April 7, 2020. This request is being filed because of an oversight where we somehow missed covering from Oct 1 – Dec 31, 2018 with the series of other FOIA request we have filed with OEMC. This request for missing data is part of a […]
FOIA: CPD Aggregate Calls for Service
Here is a FOIA we filed seeking aggregate calls for police service with the Chicago Police Department. This FOIA was filed to help supplement our negotiations with the CPD in our ongoing litigation over their violations of the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. In accordance with the Illinois Freedom of Information Act please provide […]
Felony Arrests UP Context Not
The Sun-Times’ article detailing the rise in felony arrests would serve their readers interests more if the Sun-Times did the reporting necessary to let their audience know the impact it had on crime and violence in Chicago. What readers were provided with instead was a regurgitation of numbers that without the needed context leaves […]
Who maintains IPRA’s data? Not IPRA.
It turns out IPRA – the civilian police accountability organization – does not maintain control over their own data and must seek CPD assistance in accessing the data IPRA creates & stores in the CPD’s CLEAR database system. The Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA) recently admitted to the Chicago Justice Project that they do not […]
Crime & Punishment Release
We are proud to announce the release of Crime & Punishment! This is a flat data site that community members, journalists, and policymakers can use to learn about what data is and is not available from their justice agencies. This site is set up to allow you to follow a case as it would normally […]