Chicago Community Policing Flawed, says Federal Monitor
The report from the federal monitor overseeing the federal consent decree the Chicago police department is under notes that community policing is a CPD push with deep flaws, with the department struggling to put the correct resources in place to support reform.
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A recent report from the federal monitor overseeing the federal consent decree the Chicago Police Department (CPD) is under has concluded that its officers don’t fully understand the various ways the department can interact with the public, or even how its current community-policing programs complement each other, reports the Chicago Tribune. The report notes that community policing is a CPD push with deep flaws — with the department struggling to put the correct resources in place to support reform and failing to weave constitutional reform into its efforts to address the overlapping and deeply connected issue of gun violence that continues to plague the city.
The department has fully completed less than 5 percent of the mandates reviewed so far. And while Superintendent David Brown has boasted that the department would land 1.5 million “positive community interactions” in 2022, the report concluded that that kind of quota on engagement was emphasizing “quantity of interactions over the quality of interaction.” This is raising doubts about whether the department could keep track of that many episodes to ensure they had any meaning or that they were not alienating the public. The independent monitor’s report also noted the department may not have adequate staffing in the office that handles community policing.
