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NATO & All the Unanswered Questions May 09, 2012

Why hasn't your Chicago press pushed for answers to these questions about the prep by Chicago criminal justice agencies for NATO summit?

“Justice” in the police accountability system in Chicago? Apr 10, 2012

My thoughts on how to define justice in the Chicago Police Accountability system.

Closing Districts Dec 06, 2011

Shedding a little reality in the discussion about closing districts. Not something you will hear from the Fraternal Order of Police.

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Community Listening Tour

CJP's main goal is to serve the needs of local communities. We ensure that are efforts are grounded in community needs by conducting community based research to measure those needs.

Community Listening Tour

Please assist the Chicago Justice Project (CJP) in delivering tailored information to your community from the Chicago criminal justice system.

In an effort to invigorate the collaboration between the criminal justice system and the communities they serve, we are looking to actively engage the community on issues they identify as important and then provide the community with the information necessary to address those issues. Our hope is that with this access to practical, tailored reports of data collected from the criminal justice system, which is easily understood by all members of the community, individuals will feel encouraged to engage the criminal justice system as partners.

CJP has been continuously working on learning about the information needs of communities through our community engagement efforts. In addition to our community advisory board, and our issue specific task forces, CJP has been appearing at community events and aldermanic ward meetings to talk with residents and record the types of information they want access to from the system and the format they need to have that information delivered to them.

To continue our efforts we are asking you to help us reach out to your community by allowing CJP to appear at your community event or ward meeting to learn about how we can best serve your constituents.

Contact CJP to invite us to your community or ward event here:

We have created a 16-question survey that takes residents less than three minutes to fill out that will help us identify specific community needs. Our survey allows residents to anonymously register their answers with no identifying information asked or tracked besides community area or ward. The answers we collect will allow us to quantify community interest in each specific type of information listed in our survey, which will allow us to prioritize what types of data to make available first.

To reach out to diverse communities, the Community Survey is offered in English and Spanish versions.

CLT Results

In the near future we will be providing up to date interactive data visualizations of the our survey results as we continue to expand the communities and wards that take part.

Displayed here are our current results form our CLT.  We display data from the 13 instances when CJP has spoken with local communities to measure their desires to access information from the local criminal system.  We a very proud of the diversity of the participants in our efforts.  These results incorporate the input from the following communities:

  • 4th Ward Meeting x 2
  • 6th Ward Meeting
  • 16th Ward Meeting
  • 28th Ward Meeting
  • 29th Ward Meeting x 2
  • 49th Ward Meeting
  • Organization of the North East - Youth Event
  • Organization of the North East - Community Support Advisory Council
  • ENLACE Chicago - Healing the Hood Event in Little Village
  • Cook County Commission Jesus Garcia - Block Party
  • Mayoral Tutorial

 

We ask survey takers to mark box next to each of the pieces of information they would like access to from the local criminal justice system.

  1. Police Reports - 72%
  2. Arrest Reports - 66%
  3. Names of Offenders - 61%
  4. Names of Victims - 38%
  5. Addresses of Crimes - 64%
  6. Dates of Trials - 48%
  7. Police Officers' Names - 55%
  8. Prosecutors' Names - 52%
  9. Judges' Names - 42%
  10. Explanation of why charges were or were not filed - 72%
  11. Numbers of total arrests in your neighborhood - 76%
  12. Number of total crimes reported in your neighborhood - 76%
  13. Race, ethnicity, and gender of offenders - 53%
  14. Race, ethnicity, and gender of victims - 43%
  15. Number of civilian complaints filed against an officer - 72%
  16. What police units are operating in your community - 75%
  17. All - 14%*

 

* The All category was added after the participants completed the survey to represent the percentage of individuals that marked each category on the card.  From the results you can see that there was a significant amount of variation among the survey takers for what they would like access to from the system.

 

All surveys are completed in a completely voluntary manner and are always anonymous.

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