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Chicago Police Department’s Discipline Implementation, Options, and Recordkeeping

December 16, 2025

Summary

This report assesses whether finalized disciplinary actions imposed on Chicago Police Department (CPD) members are fully and consistently implemented and recorded, and whether the exercise of “options to suspension” impacts the implementation, consistency, and fairness of final discipline.

Executive Summary

OIG found that CPD’s recording of its implementation of final discipline in Citywide personnel and payroll databases was inconsistent (e.g., if a suspension has been implemented—in other words, a member has served a suspension—there ought to be data regarding the suspension in the member’s personnel file along with an associated deduction of pay in the relevant Citywide databases, but OIG found that the necessary information in both databases was not reliably recorded), and was most incomplete for reprimands and suspensions.

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