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1 results foundAuthor: Siska, Tracy Title: Chicago Police Board: A 10-Year Analysis Summary: The Chicago Police Board (Board) plays a vital role in the accountability systems in place for disciplining Chicago Police Officers in line with the established rules governing their conduct. Mutual trust between communities relies on how accountability mechanisms within and external to the Department operate. Citizen oversight of the Chicago Police Department plays an important role in giving citizens a voice in how their communities are policed. An important piece of that oversight must include transparency in the operations of the civilian oversight agencies. Transparency must be more than a slogan; it needs to be part of how the agencies operate. Community members need to see that officers whose actions are in violation of accepted rules of conduct are disciplined in line with Department policy. Fellow officers need to be assured that the practices are procedurally fair and representative of their larger forces’ desires to be free of officers who are not representing the City or the Department with pride and a desire to serve the citizens of Chicago. In short, the accountability mechanisms serve both the citizens of Chicago and the members of the Chicago Police Department. With this understanding, the Chicago Justice Project (CJP) examined ten years of the Board’s decisions in cases for which the Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department sought the termination of either sworn officers or civilian employees. We included the cases involving civilian employees for comparison purposes. Our study covered 310 cases over the course of a ten-year period starting in January 1999 and ending in December 2008. This study examines many factors to provide a more holistic view of the role played by the Board. We examine differences in outcomes of cases for which the Superintendent of Police found employee behaviors eligible for termination. Following current protocols for holding civilian employee or sworn officers accountable, either the Commander of the Internal Affairs Division of the Chicago Police Department or the Chief Administrator of the Independent Police Review Authority investigate the case and recommend an amount of discipline that the Superintendent reviews and then agrees with prior to charges being filed with the Board. Our study analyzed the following factors related to how the Board operates: The rate at which the Board upheld the recommendation of the Superintendent to terminate both sworn officer and civilian employees; The average length of suspensions; The length of time it takes a case to proceed through the Board from the time charges are filed until the time the Board renders a decision; The rate at which the Board returned both the civilian employees and sworn officers to duty without any discipline; The rate at which the Board produced unanimous decisions; The effect played by the individual hearing officers; and, The rate at which board members missed votes. Details: Chicago, IL: Chicago Justice Project, 2009. 31p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 30, 2012 at http://www.chicagojustice.org/research/long-form-reports/chicago-police-board-a-ten-year-analysis/CJP_CPB_Report_2009.pdf Year: 2009 Country: United States URL: http://www.chicagojustice.org/research/long-form-reports/chicago-police-board-a-ten-year-analysis/CJP_CPB_Report_2009.pdf Shelf Number: 126524 Keywords: Police Behavior (Chicago)Police Misconduct (Chicago)Police Oversight (Chicago)Police Professionalism (Chicago) |