Independent Monitor Margaret Hickey and the Independent Monitoring Team submitted its second Community Survey Report under ¶¶645–51 of the Consent Decree on May 30, 2023.
The report presents results from a community survey that asked about how Chicagoans feel about and interact with the Chicago Police Department. The survey was conducted between October 2021 and May 2022 by researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Chicago.
2022 Community Survey: Quick Facts
Trends by Race and Ethnicity
Overall, Chicagoan’s perceptions of and satisfaction with the CPD were more negative than in 2020. Young Black men continued to rate the CPD more negatively than all Chicagoans on nearly all questions.
Confidence in Reform
Overall, more Chicagoans were “doubtful” or “very doubtful” that police reform would have a lasting and positive impact according to their responses in 2022 compared to 2020.
Use of Force Interactions
Fewer Young Black Men reported having had a gun pointed at them by an officer in 2022 compared to 2020 (11% vs 19%). The rate is still much higher than the reported 2022 rates for other Chicagoans.
Community Survey Infographic
Open Community Survey Data
This release includes the 2022 community survey data for the All Chicagoans 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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2022 IMT Community Survey Data
Includes the 2022 community survey data for the All Chicagoans sample (Chicago adults, ages 18+) and the Young Black Men sample (ages 18-25).
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