Recent Developments on Chicago Police Department’s Use of Gang Data
November 16, 2023
Summary
In April 2019, the City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) found wide-reaching data quality concerns with the Gang Arrest Card system used by the Chicago Police Department (CPD). At the time, CPD members completed an electronic Gang Arrest Card upon arresting an individual the member believed to be associated with an organized criminal group or street gang.
Executive Summary
In its response to OIG’s original recommendations, CPD referred to forthcoming improvements from a newly proposed system for recording gang affiliation designations. In April 2019, CPD published a new draft “General Order G10-01-03: Criminal Enterprise Database,” to govern the administration of that system.
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