Tactical Response Reports: Incident Comparison

What will you find here? 

To analyze the rate that at which certain individuals are subject to reported uses of force by Chicago Police Department (CPD) members, this table allows users to compare demographics and incident characteristics of those reports. When a member of the Chicago Police Department (CPD) uses policy-defined force against an individual, when an individual alleges that they were injured by a CPD member, or when a CPD member is injured in an interaction with an individual, CPD members are required to complete a Tactical Response Report (TRR). Users can use this data to draw connections to the aspects of an incident that are more likely to result in use of force. 

Some questions that can be answered using data in this dashboard include: 

• What is the percentage of CPD members with less than 5 years of experience who have reported TRR incidents? 
• What demographic identities are subject to uses of force at higher rates? 
• In the past year, what was the most common combination of gender identities for subjects and members involved in TRR incidents? 

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 begin January 1, 2015, and the data is typically refreshed weekly on Sundays. Data represents the information that is in the CPD databases as of the date of last update (listed in the top right corner of the dashboards). TRRs provide details of incidents as reported by CPD members. The information in these dashboards only includes data from completed TRRs that indicate an individual was involved as a subject and that have a status of Approved, Submitted, or Preliminary. Incidents with multiple TRRs are identified by matching CPD Records Division (RD) Numbers, incident locations, and incident times across TRRs.