Community Engagement – CPD Monitoring Team

The Independent Monitoring Team is dedicated to collaboration and engagement with members of Chicago’s communities. Our team engages in continuous and regular dialogue with community members to gather questions, concerns, and overall feedback. Members of the community are invited to submit feedback and ask questions via our feedback form , and attend our Independent Monitoring Team community meetings – both in person and online. We review all community comments that we receive throughout the monitoring process.

How can I get involved?

The Community Engagement Team works hard to connect with neighborhoods, community groups, religious organizations, advocates, and residents across the city. The Community Engagement Team encourages community members to participate in meetings and to promote these sessions through their networks. If your neighborhood or community group would like to invite a Community Engagement Team member to your meeting(s), please email us at contact@cpdmonitoringteam.com or fill out our feedback form.

Community members may provide input on CPD policy. When the CPD modifies or creates applicable policies, it will post them on their website for community members to provide input here.

Community members may also attend any of the public meetings listed on our website – including public hearings before Judge Pallmeyer, complete an feedback form on our website, or reach out to members of our Community Engagement Team directly. You can learn more about previous public hearings here and upcoming public hearings here.

How can I contact the Independent Monitoring Team?

You can reach out to us via email - contact@cpdmonitoringteam.com
You can also contact individual members of our Community Engagements Team:
Joe Hoereth: joe.hoereth@cpdmonitoringteam.com
Norma Ramos: neramos@uic.edu

Learn more on our Contact Us page. You can also use the Feedback Form on this website to send us your input or leave us general comments.

Monitor's Community Meetings and Listening Sessions

Join our community meetings to learn about progress on the CPD reform efforts, ask questions, and share your thoughts, concerns, or experiences in the community. We need to hear from Chicago’s communities to understand how changes to policing are felt in your neighborhoods. We regularly hold community meetings in person and online.

Join our mailing list to receive a notification about future meetings.

The Community Engagement Team hosts regular community meetings and listening sessions to gather input and ensure the community has a voice in the assessment of CPD’s and the City’s compliance with the Consent Decree. These meetings are an excellent opportunity to learn about CPD’s progress, provide feedback on measuring compliance, ask questions about the CPD, the monitoring process, future steps or request a team member to attend your community meeting.

Past Community Meeting Flyers and Presentations

June 22, 2023 Presentation Slides – This community meeting focused on updates to CPD’s reform progress and specifically with Impartial Policing paragraphs of the Consent Decree. This meeting was co-hosted in partnership with HANA Center and Apna Ghar.
September 21, 2023 Presentation Slides – This community meeting focused on the upcoming Comprehensive Assessment of the CPD’s reform progress. This meeting was co-hosted in partnership with North River Commission.

What is the Community Survey?

Paragraphs 645-647 of the Consent Decree require the Independent Monitoring Team to “conduct reliable, representative, and comprehensive surveys of a broad cross section of members of the Chicago community regarding CPD” every two years. The surveys, conducted in partnership with UIC’s Institute for Public and Civic Engagement, assess “perceptions of, and satisfaction with, CPD. The surveys will examine perceptions of CPD’s overall police services, trustworthiness, community engagement, effectiveness, responsiveness, handling of misconduct complaints and investigations, and interactions with members of the Chicago community.”

Monitor's Community Surveys

Independent Monitor Conducts Second Community Survey
Independent Monitor Conducts Community Survey

The Coalition

The Consent Decree recognizes many of Chicago’s community groups in paragraph 669, which refers to “a broad-based community coalition (“Coalition”) committed to monitoring, enforcing, and educating the community about this Agreement.”

The Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) among the Parties and the Coalition
may be found here.

The MOA defines Coalition membership as follows: “the Plaintiffs in Campbell v. City of Chicago, N.D. Ill. Case No. 17-cv-4467 (the “Campbell Plaintiffs”),1 and the Plaintiffs in Communities United v. City of Chicago, N.D. Ill. Case No. 17-cv-7151, (the “Communities United Plaintiffs”).”

Paragraph 669

The Parties have entered into a Memorandum of Agreement (“MOA”) with certain community organizations that have established a broad-based community coalition (“Coalition”) committed to monitoring, enforcing, and educating the community about this Agreement. No less frequently than quarterly, the Monitor will participate in meetings with the Coalition, as provided in Paragraph 9 of the MOA.