Independent Monitoring Report 9 provides our assessments of the City’s and the Chicago Police Department’s progress on reform efforts in the ninth reporting period (July 1, 2023, through December 31, 2023). The report includes, among other things, required by the Consent Decree, the following:
- updated compliance assessments or status updates through nine reporting periods;
- a compliance assessment or status update for each new paragraph we identified for this reporting period in our Monitoring Plan for Year Five;
- a Monitoring Plan for Year Six;
- a summary of the principal achievements and challenges facing the City’s ability to comply with the Consent Decree; and
- an updated projection of upcoming work for the City, OAG, and the IMT (¶661).
The report is available here. The corresponding press release is available here.
Additionally, you can find specific paragraph assessments for each section of the Consent Decree:
- Community Policing
- Impartial Policing
- Crisis Intervention
- Use of Force
- Recruitment, Hiring, and Promotion
- Training
- Supervision – The City did not achieve or lose compliance levels this reporting period.
- Officer Wellness and Support
- Accountability and Transparency
- Data Collection, Analysis, and Management
- Investigatory Stops, Protective Pat Downs, and the Enforcement Loitering Ordinances