Independent Monitor Margaret Hickey and the Independent Monitoring Team submitted a Community Survey Report under ¶¶645–51 of the Consent Decree on August 26, 2020.
The report presents results from a community survey that asked about how Chicago residents (Chicagoans) feel about and interact with the Chicago Police Department (CPD). The survey was conducted between November 2019 and February 2020 by researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Chicago.
2020 Community Survey: Quick Facts
Trends by Race and Ethnicity
Overall, White Chicagoans rated police most positively. Young Black Men rated the CPD more negatively than all Chicagoans on nearly all 54 questions.
Positive Survey Responses
Chicagoans responded positively on less than half of survey questions. The CPD received a positive rating by over 50% of Chicagoans on only 20 of the 54 (37%) rating questions.
Confidence in Reform
No group had more than 38% say that they were “confident” or “very confident” that reform of the CPD would lead to lasting and positive changes.
Community Survey Infographic
Open Community Survey Data
This release includes the 2020 community survey data for the general population sample and the supplemental sample of young Black men. The datasets include all of the variables presented in the Community Survey report as well as data dictionaries to help the user navigate the data.
Note About Protecting Respondent Privacy
The IMT’s goal is to maximize the usefulness of these datasets while also minimizing the ability for users of the dataset to identify survey respondents. To protect the privacy of respondents, the dataset does not include any information that would directly identify a survey respondent (e.g., name or address). Some values have been removed to further protect respondent identity and these modifications are documented in the data dictionaries.
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2020 IMT Community Survey Data
Includes the 2020 community survey data for the General Population sample (Chicagoans, ages 18+) and the Young Black Male sample (ages 18-25).
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