Public Safety Section Annual Report 2020
Summary
Pursuant to Municipal Code of Chicago, the Annual Report of the Office of Inspector General’s Public Safety section provides a detailed accounting of work published by the Public Safety section in 2020 with an analysis of 2020 data.
Executive Summary
Informed by specific obligations derived from its ordinance and the consent decree entered in Illinois v. Chicago, coordination with stakeholders, input from CPD members and members of the public, and long-standing institutional knowledge of the core public safety challenges in Chicago, the Public Safety section has adopted the following strategic priorities to guide its work:
• Improving CPD’s administrative, managerial, and operational competencies to render it more effective in the performance of its critical public safety functions, and more efficient in its administration
• Ensuring transparency, diligence, fairness, consistency, and timeliness in the police discipline and accountability system
• Ensuring that Chicagoans’ constitutional and civil rights are sufficiently and equitably protected in all aspects of public safety operations
The Public Safety section serves these priorities through three mechanisms: programmatic, audit-based evaluations and reviews; inspection of individual closed disciplinary cases; and collection and analysis of data from CPD and City sources on many aspects of policing, public safety operations, and the police disciplinary system.
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