Public Safety Section Annual Report 2021

Executive Summary

In 2021, the work of the section extended to each of the involved City of Chicago departments and touched all aspects of public safety operations–– from hiring to discipline, from core policing strategies to fundamental administrative functions. It is at the core of the Public Safety section’s mission to provide meaningful transparency into and accountability across Chicago’s complex public safety system, and to make substantial contributions to the City’s ongoing reform effort. By doing so, we strive to make payments against the debt of legitimacy owed by the City and its police department to its residents––to continue the work of fostering public trust and improving the relationship between the police and the communities they serve, thereby making Chicagoans, in uniform and out, safer.