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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">FOR RELEASE</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">:
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July 25, 2024 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Deanna Shoss, Communications, 773.478.8417 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">OIG Releases Updated Chicago Police Staffing Dashboards and Report on CPD Members Assigned with Patrol Duties<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif;color:#212529">The City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) has published an update to its suite of Sworn Chicago Police Department (CPD) Members data
dashboards, along with an accompanying report, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">Staffing: Sworn Chicago Police Department Members Assigned with Patrol Duties.</span></em> A longtime resource to media and others looking to understand CPD
member presence in Chicago’s communities, the updated dashboards and map now drill deeper into patrol staffing, including assignments by Beat, present for duty status, and distribution across early morning, daytime, and evening work hours. Updates to the existing
suite of dashboards on OIG’s Information Portal are intended to provide users with a clearer, more accurate point-in-time view of how many CPD members are working on a given day in a given place, which the accompanying descriptive inquiry report details, including
CPD’s patrol staffing history and structure; the report also addresses the record-keeping and data limitations which pose challenges to comprehensive staffing assessments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif;color:#212529">“OIG’s updated dashboards aim to give Chicagoans a better—albeit imperfect—view of what policing looks like in their neighborhoods,” says Deborah Witzburg, Inspector General for the City
of Chicago. “As Chicago continues to work toward meaningful public safety reform, to include a thoughtful assessment of which functions belong within the Police Department and how many people are required to carry those out, all of the City’s stakeholders
need accurate and reliable staffing data.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif;color:#212529">Assessing CPD’s staffing levels can be opaque and multi-faceted as positions are separated into multiple geographic and non-geographic categories, relevant data is stored in different systems
by different City departments, and answers to questions such as “How many CPD members patrol my community?” are variable. In the report issued today to accompany the new dashboards, OIG addresses these and other factors that complicate and hinder analysis
of CPD’s real-world staffing levels.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif;color:#212529">OIG’s new dashboards provide—for the first time—granular data on CPD staffing by Beat levels, present for duty status, and work hours. The dashboards provide an informational, point-in-time
snapshot of the number of officers on duty on a Beat for one day each month. As more and better staffing data becomes available, OIG will continue to update the dashboards.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif;color:#212529">OIG’s dashboards were created to make multiple sources of City data, including CPD databases, Chicago Integrated Personnel and Payroll Systems (CHIPPS), and the City’s human resources information
system, more meaningfully accessible to the public. OIG follows a rigorous protocol to validate and clean data before presenting it in OIG’s Information Portal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif;color:#212529">Read the Report and View the Dashboards</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif;color:#212529"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif;color:#212529"><a href="https://igchicago.org/publications/cpd-members-patrol-staffing/" target="_blank">Read the full report, released on July 25, 2024</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif;color:#212529"><a href="https://igchicago.org/information-portal/data-dashboards/sworn-cpd-member-overview-2/" target="_blank">View the updated Sworn CPD Members and Patrol Staffing dashboards on OIG’s
Information Portal</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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