An analysis last year of Chicago Police Department deployment data appears to raise questions about whether Chicago police officers are consistently on the street at times when most shootings happen in the city.
data appears to raise questions about whether Chicago police officers are consistently on the street at times when most shootings happen in the city.
Police work the scene on Aug. 12, 2022, where an officer shot a person Thursday shortly before midnight near the 5300 block of South May Street in Chicago. The Tribune asked to speak directly to Chicago police Superintendent David Brown and was given an emailed statement that said the department “regularly reviews and adjusts resources across the Department to enhance public safety and address crime patterns.”
The Central Austin Neighborhood Association reached a settlement last year with the city to address “the chronic disparity in police response times to calls from white neighborhoods compared to neighborhoods that are primarily Black and Brown,” according to the ACLU of Illinois, which filed the lawsuit.
Stephens said he used a similar approach. The combination of having quick response times and being “proactive” is what drives crime and violence down, he said. At the same time, Brown has repeatedly announced the shifting of resources to problem areas, like downtown or the CTA, in the wake of violence.
Stephens, the national expert, said that shifting patrols to respond to spikes in crime is one part of a larger, data-driven deployment strategy. It makes sense, he said. The three analyses were titled “GPS Analysis by Location” and “GPS Analysis by Time of Day and Day of Week” and “Patrol Officer Counts.”Patrol officer counts included a table that showed how many patrol officers in each district responded to 15 or more calls in one month that was examined. A response was counted when an officer reported that they were answering a 911 call or other dispatched events, such as a ShotSpotter alert.
The analysis period was between June 2020 and February 2021. In all three categories, the number of officers working in the field, or on the street, appeared out of sync with the number of shootings on the weekends, according to the report. “We are only aware of what this data shows for the months that CPD requested to perform,” the statement reads. “As a result, we do not know whether these patterns are a continuation of long-term trends or a break from the past.”
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