What will you find here?
This dashboard displays a table with the counts of Chicago Police Department (CPD) active sworn members that can be customized to visualize the distribution of members across different categories. Users can toggle between district/unit, beat, or rank/title as table rows, and month, gender, race, years of service, age, present for duty status, and work hours as table columns. This allows users to obtain granular information about demographics, staffing patterns, and operational metrics. The information presented is point-in-time staffing data.
Click here to read OIG’s accompanying report on CPD patrol staffing.
Some questions that can be answered using data from this dashboard are:
- What percentage of CPD members were present for duty and assigned or detailed to the 7th District in the last month?
- How many CPD Lieutenants serve in the 24th District?
- Which beats have the highest number of members assigned to evening hours?
Key Terminology (Expand/collapse each for details.)
Rank/Title
The terms “rank” and “title” are used interchangeably and refer to the hierarchical positions held by sworn CPD members, such as entry-level positions like Police Officer, to supervisory roles like Sergeant, Lieutenant, Captain.
Unit
A unit refers to a member’s work location and/or job duties. Some units are connected to specific geographic locations (e.g., police districts) whereas others are non-geographical and refer to the nature of the member’s work duties (e.g., Troubled Building Unit or Finance Division). At any given time, some members are not posted to their permanent assignments; rather, they are detailed on a short-term basis to units different from their regular assignments. OIG uses this assignment and detail information for its sworn CPD member dashboards to depict members where they are actually working—if a member has a permanent assignment and no detail, they are counted in their assigned unit. However, if a member is on a detail, they will show up on the dashboards in their detailed unit.
Beat
A beat further defines a CPD member’s responsibilities.
- Beats are divided into two categories:
- geographical beats are defined as a specific tract of land designated for primary police patrol and are identified based on their inclusion in the CPD map of beat boundaries. To classify a beat as geographic, only the numeral portion of the beat name is considered. For example, Beat 0111 and Beat 0111A are both considered geographic since Beat 0111 is on the CPD beat map.
- non-geographical beats include other designated functions unrelated to a specific location, such as CPD leadership or special functions.
Click here to find your beat.
Present for Duty Status
The present for duty status indicates a CPD member’s presence or absence status on a given day.
Work Hours
The term “work hours” refers to the time of day on which CPD members serve their tours of duty. Most CPD members are assigned to work a part of the day which generally corresponds to early morning work hours, daytime work hours, and evening work hours. According to CPD’s website, typical early morning work hours begin at 11:00 p.m. or midnight; daytime work hours start at 7:00 a.m. or 8:00 a.m.; and evening work hours begin at 3:00 p.m. or 4:00 p.m.
Data Sources
All information presented in these dashboards is based on data stored in CPD databases and Chicago Integrated Personnel and Payroll Systems (CHIPPS), the City’s human resources information system. Records related to member count, demographic information, and district/unit assignment begin August 2017. Records related to beat assignment, attendance information, and work hours begin July 2023. The data is refreshed during the first week of each month to incorporate information from the previous month. Data is current through the date of last update (listed at the top of the dashboards). In 2012, certain CPD districts were consolidated which resulted in the closing of Districts 13, 21, and 23. Population data is from US Census Bureau 2017-2021 American Community Survey estimates and is aggregated by geographic area based on each area’s geographic intersection with census tracts.
To find your CPD District or Beat, please click here.
