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RERORT OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY SECTION OF THE OFFICE OF INSRECTOR GENERAL

APRIL 11, 2019
TO THE MAYOR, CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC
SAFETY, CITY COUNCIL, CITY CLERK, CITY TREASURER,
AND RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:

 More specifically, gang information contains incomplete and contradictory
data. OlC?s analysis of data from Ca ng Arrest Cards found numerous instances
in which individuals are listed with blank or conflicting Identification Pecord numbers,
birthdates, and other classifications. OIC identified records in which individuals had
birth dates prior to l90l, and other records in which an individual?s age was listed as
zero. Over 15,000 individuals designated as gang members by CPD had no specific
gang membership listed and no reason provided for why the individual was listed as a
gang member. Individuals designated as gang members are not notified of their
designation and have no ability to appeal the designation. CPD does not regularly
review, correct, or purge inaccurate gang information; those with inaccurate
designations have no opportunity to clear their name and mitigate the impact of
incorrect or outdated gang designations. Ultimately, gang designations are
permanent and inescapable. Once designated, an individual is listed as a gang
member in systems forever.

Additionally, some entries in the ?gang database? raise serious concerns about how
CPD officers perceive and treat the people with whom they interact. OIC found that
CPD officers entered occupations for individuals on gang arrest cards that included
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entries demonstrate lack of controls around its data entry practices and how
such information systems can be employed to demean and dehumanize members of
the public.

CPD shares its ?gang database? information with over 500 external agencies,
including immigration and criminaljustice agencies. CPD lacks sufficient control and
oversight of external agencies? access and use ofthis information. This unchecked
and widespread use?more than one million gang?related queries by external
agencies in the past ten years?may contribute to a variety of negative consequences
for individuals and communities.

Furthermore, practices and lack oftransparency regarding its gang
designations have strained police?community relations. Community members
reported personal accounts to OIC in which their experiences of ?gang
database??related strategies?including misidentification, harassment, obstacles to
immigration, and racial profiling?furthered the historical divide between themselves
and the police and contributed to inequities, especially in communities of color.2
Community members expressed concerns that the ?gang data base? serves as a
mechanism for ?criminalizing people in certain neighborhoods.? Personal accounts of
these experiences can be viewed on OlC?s website at 

 

2 Thirteen of the City?s 77 community areas account for over 50% of Gang Arrest Cards produced. All l3 of
these community areas are on the South and West Sides of Chicago. Austin, North Lawndale, Humboldt
Park, and South Lawndale collectively account for approximately 24% of all Gang Arrest Cards produced.

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To address these concerns, OIC provided 30 recommendations to encourage CPD to
evaluate the utility oftracking gang designations for the Department?s violence
reduction efforts and to immediately address the risks associated with collecting,
maintaining, and sharing unverified and potentially damaging information. Key
recommendations for CPD include:

evaluating in partnership with stakeholders whether collecting,
maintaining, sharing, and using gang information best serves violence
reduction efforts in the City;

0 requiring evidentiary support for the assignment of gang designations;

codifying processes for reviewing gang designations;

notifying individuals that they have been designated as a gang member;

0 establishing processes for contesting or appealing one?s gang designation;

0 regularly reviewing gang designations to identify inaccurate or outdated
designations;

0 developing a means to purge inaccurate or outdated information;

establishing formal agreements with external agencies and regularly audit
their use of gang information; and

0 providing regular public reports on collection, storage, use, and sharing
ofgang?related data.

In its response to this report, CPD agreed with findings, largely concurred with
many of OlC?s recommendations, and partially concurred or disagreed with others.
CPD acknowledged that its gang information policies, practices, and technology had
impeded the Department?s ability to maintain updated and relevant information. In
its response, the Department proposed the development of a new system to collect
and store gang information, the Criminal Enterprise Database (CED). As proposed by
the Department, the CED will be a single, unified system that ensures the inclusion of
updated and vetted information, purging ofoutdated gang information, and a
process for members ofthe public to ascertain and appeal their designation as a
gang member or affiliate. CPD also indicated that the new system will incorporate
regulations on sharing gang information with third parties.

While the Department has signaled intentions to reform its gang?related technology
and information practices, response and proposed measures diverge from
OlC?s recommendations in several critical ways. First, CPD states that it has already
conducted an internal evaluation, affirmed the utility of collecting gang information,
and drafted policies for a new system. By doing so, CPD has missed an opportunity to
collaborate and enhance the legitimacy of its reforms. OIC encourages CPD to
partner with community stakeholders and to participate in a community?based
stakeholder committee to reform its gang information practices. A more robust,
proactive approach to community engagement will likely be necessary to overcome
the level of mistrust and alienation that currently shapes the relationship between

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police and communities. response also deviates from OlC?s recommendations
with the proposal of an appeals process that involves several substantive barriers and
no additional protections forjuveniles.

As the City and the Chicago Police Department embark on a historic period of reform
in the context of a consent decree, court monitor, and new administration, the
recommendations ofthis report?along with the reforms to which CPD has
committed?present an opportunity to diminish the division between police and the
communities they serve. In Chicago, where unconstitutional policing has
disproportionately impacted communities of color, the need for transparency and
meaningful community input is all the more critical.

Moreover, although the police currently play a role in keeping communities safe
through enforcement strategies, every stakeholder OIC spoke to?including
members of CPD?indicated that stopping violence requires more resources?such
as violence prevention workers; equitable opportunities for education, employment,
and housing; and access to mental healthcare resources. CPD, City Council, and the
Mayor?s Office must undertake holistic and comprehensive actions to enhance
violence reduction efforts and they must include community voices.

OIC thanks CPD for its cooperation during this evaluation. We also extend our
gratitude to the community members and organizations, local and national law
enforcement officials, academics, auditing agencies, and criminal and civil rights
attorneys who shared their perspectives for this review.

Pespectfu ly,

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Joseph Lipari
Deputy Inspector General for Public Safety
City ofChicago

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3
A. OVERVIEW OF FINDINGS 5
I. CPD lacks sufficient controls in generating, maintaining, and sharing gang?
related data 5
2. gang information practices lack procedural fairness protections 5
3. Gang Arrest Cards raise significant data quality concerns 6
4. CPD's practices and lack oftransparency regarding its gang designations
strain police?community relations 6
B. OVERVIEW OF KEY RECOMMENDATIONS 6
II. OBJECTIVES, SCOPE, AND METHODOLOGY 8
BACKGROUND TO
A. STAKEHOLDER CONCERNS TO
B. DEPARTMENT OFJUSTICE FINDINGS Tl
C. LOCALACADEMIC STUDIES AND MEDIA Ii
D. RECENT LITIGATION I2
E. LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS I3
F. RECENT CPD STATEMENTS ON GANG INFORMATION 13
G. GANG INFORMATION l4
H. POTENTIAL COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES OF GANG DESIGNATIONS 28
IV. DATA ANALYSIS 32
A. GANG ARREST CARDS 32
V. FINDINGS 44
A. CPD LACKS SUFFICIENT CONTROLS IN GENERATING, MAINTAINING, AND
SHARING DATA 44
B. GANG INFORMATION PRACTICES LACK PROCEDURAL FAIRNESS
PROTECTIONS 47
C. GANG ARREST CARDS RAISE SIGNIFICANT DATA QUALITY CONCERNS 48
D. PRACTICES AND LACK OF TRANSPARENCY REGARDING ITS GANG
DESIGNATIONS STRAIN RELATIONS 49
VI. RECOMMENDATIONS 52
A. UTILITYANDALIGNMENT WITH VIOLENCE REDUCTION EFFORTS 52
B. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURAL FAIRNESS PROTECTIONS 54
C. POLICE LEGITIMACY AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT 58
VII. DEPARTMENT RESPONSE 60
APPENDIX A: CPD BUREAUS AND DIVISIONS INVOLVED IN GANG
DESIGNATION, TRACKING, AND ENFORCEMENT 61
IX. APPENDIX B: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING POTENTIAL
COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES OF GANG DESIGNATIONS 64
X. APPENDIX C: GANG INFORMATION SYSTEMS DIAGRAM PROVIDED BY CPD 72
XI. APPENDIX D: DATA COLLECTION, REPORTING, AND VISUALIZATION POINTS 74
XII. APPENDIX E: LIST OF EXTERNAL AGENCIES WITH ACCESS PROVIDED BY
CPD TOO
APPENDIX F: APPLICATION FOR EXTERNAL AGENCY ACCESS TO CLEAR 114
XIV. APPENDIX G: GANG ARREST CARD ALLEGATIONS H6

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XV. APPENDIX H: GANG ARREST COUNTS BY COMMUNITY AREA (JANUARY I,

I997, TH ROUGH NOVEMBER 7, 2018) 118
XVI. APPENDIX I: GLOSSARY 120
XVII. APPENDIX 3: RESPONSE LETTER 123
APPENDIX K: DRAFT GENERAL ORDER ISI
ACRONYMS
CCSAO Cook County State?s Attorney?s Office
CED Criminal Enterprise Database
CI Confidential Informant
CLEAR Citizen and Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting
CPD Chicago Police Department
CPS Chicago Public Schools
DACA Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
DOC Deployment Operations Center
DOJ United States Department ofJustice
FOIA Freedom of Information Act
ICRA Illinois Civil Rights Act
ICE Immigration and Customs Enforcement
IDOC Illinois Department of Corrections
ISP Illinois State Police
ISR Investigatory Stop Report
LEADS Law Enforcement Agencies Data System
LRA Local Records Act
OIG Office of Inspector General
UIC University ofIllinois at Chicago

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I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Public Safety Section ofthe City of Chicago?s Office of Inspector General (OIC)
concluded a review ofthe Chicago Police Department?s gang?related data,
commonly referred to by the public as the ?gang data base.?3 review found that
while the Chicago Police Department (CPD or the ?Department?) deploys a host of
strategies, tactics, and technology in relation to gangs, it does not have a unified,
stand?alone ?gang data base? as publicly perceived. Instead, the Department collects
and stores information on individual and geographic gang involvement through a
multitude of internal data bases, forms, visualization tools, and repositories. CPD also
receives gang?related data generated by external agencies. Therefore, any effort to
address public concern over the purpose and practices associated with the
Department?s collection and use ofgang information must begin with an accurate
understanding ofthe various components and current technological limitations.

 

To conduct this review, OIC examined policies on gangs; observed gang?
related trainings at Training Academy; interviewed Department personnel
across ranks and Bureaus regarding gang information; analyzed gang?related
data in Arrest Reports; and examined external agencies? access to gang?related
data. Further, OIC attended public forums with community members regarding
gang designations; reviewed local, federal, and state statutes; reviewed policies
regarding gang designations from otherjurisdictions; and spoke with local and
national law enforcement, community?based, research, criminaljustice, legal, and
auditing agencies regarding gang designations.

CPD designates both individuals and geographic areas as gang?involved. Individual
gang designations can be based on factors such as being in the presence of others
designated as gang members, pictures ofthe individual displaying perceived gang
signals on social media, and/or the individual stating to CPD that they are a gang
member. Area gang designations can be based on factors such as the number of
individuals designated as gang members living in an area, and/or graffiti in the area.
OIC found that CPD has captured, reported, and visualized gang?related data in at
least 18 different forms, records, and systems of records in the past IO years, although
CPD was not able to definitively account for all such information in its possession and
control. According to CPD, it shares gang information with over 500 external
agencies, including education, immigration, and criminaljustice agencies. These
designations may contribute to a variety of adverse consequences for individuals and

 

3 OIC uses the terms ?gang designation,? ?gang information,? and ?gang?related data? instead of ?gang
data base? because CPD does not have a single, unified database where such information resides. For the
purposes ofthis report, ?gang designation? means the labeling ofan individual or area as gang?involved.
?Gang information? or ?gang?related data? indicate gang designations documented by CPD in
Department forms and systems this information can also appear in various Department reports and
visualization tools.

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communities in, among others, law enforcement, criminaljustice, immigration, and
employment contexts.

OIC focused its analysis on gang designations appearing in CPD Ca ng Arrest Cards,
which are completed for individuals who an arresting officer believes is a gang
member. 016 did so because these data relate to individuals whose identities are
most reliably verifiable as compared to numerous other CPD records containing gang
information. OlC?s analysis of Cang Arrest Card data found that Black, African
American, and Latinx persons comprise 95% ofthe134,242 individuals designated as
gang members during arrest, and are designated at both younger and older ages as
well as issued more Gang Arrest Cards per person than White gang designees. OlC?s
analysis further revealed that 11.3% of individuals designated as gang members during
arrest (15,174 people) have no specific gang listed for which they are a member and
11.7% (15,648 people) have never had a reason listed for their gang designations.

OlC?s review found that: 1) CPD lacks sufficient controls for generating, maintaining,
and sharing gang?related data; 2) gang information practices lacl< procedural
fairness protections; 3) gang designations raise significant data quality
concerns; and 4) practices and lack oftransparency regarding its gang
designations strain police?community relations.

As a result ofthe insufficient controls, lack of procedural fairness protections, data
quality concerns, and impact on police?community relations, CPD:

0 Cannot confirm that all of its gang designations are accurate and up?to?
date;
0 Cannot ensure that CPD members designate individuals as gang

members with sufficient, reliable evidence corroborating actual gang
involvement;

0 Maintains gang information for long periods oftime despite state
records retention laws that allow such information to be destroyed and
Department policies requiring this destruction;

0 May not be able to produce all relevant gang?related documentation as
may be legally required in response to Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) requests and during litigation;

0 Lacks sufficient control over external agency access and has limited
capacities to monitor the use of its gang information by external
agencies and hold them accountable; and

0 May not be able to ensure that all gang?related data collection tools
serve a legitimate law enforcement purpose and are used appropriately,
among other effects.

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A. OVERVIEW OF FINDINGS

l. CPD lacks sufficient controls in generating, maintaining, and
sharing gang?related data

In generating gang?related data, CPD lacks sufficient training, criteria, evidence,
supervisory review, and internal mechanisms to mitigate, identify, and address
inaccurate information.

With respect to maintaining gang?related data, the Department was unable to
provide OIC with a complete list or comprehensive accounting of all the various
forms, records or systems of records in which gang information could be and has
been recorded, reported, and visualized in the last 10 years. review further
revealed that Department members were unaware of certain records retention
requirements, and that CPD may be out of compliance with its own policies
regarding record retention.

In relation to sharing gang?related data, CPD has no agreements with external
agencies beyond the initial application for access to one of data systems,
Citizen and Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting (CLEAP), which only provides
broadly that the information be used for ?law enforcement purposes.? Further, 
analysis of external agencies with access to gang information revealed external
agencies with access CPD did not disclose to OIC, and the Department was unable to
explain why the list it provided to OIC was incomplete.

2. gang information practices lack procedural fairness
protections

The Department does not inform individuals that they have been designated as a
gang member; does not have processes for individuals to contest or appeal gang
designations; does not have processes to regularly review or purge outdated or faulty
designations; and has no internal mechanism to amend inaccurate gang information.
CPD has no minimum age for designating individuals as gang members, and there is
no exit or end time for individuals designated as gang members by CPD. review
found that the youngest person designated as a gang member on a Gang Arrest
Card was designated at the age of 9 and has remained designated for l9 years.
Another person was first designated as a gang member at the age of 75 and has
remained designated for lO years. The coupling of a lack of controls with the absence
of procedural fairness protections inhibits the Department?s ability to assure the
accuracy of its information, and potentially undermines public confidence in the
Department?s legitimacy and effectiveness in the service of its public safety mission.

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3. Gang Arrest Cards raise significant data quality concerns

According to CPD, the Department?s most verified gang?related data is captured in
Gang Arrest Cards. However, analysis of data from this source found numerous
instances in which individuals are listed with blank or conflicting Identification Pecord
(IP) numbers, birthdates, and other classifications. For example, OIC found 90 records
in which an individual had a birth date prior to I901, and another 80 records in which
an individual?s age was listed as zero.

4. practices and lack oftransparency regarding its gang
designations strain police?community relations

In interviews and at public forums, OIC heard from Chicago community members
who expressed fear and uncertainty about the criteria, use, structure, and purpose of
the ?gang data base.? During the review, community members also reported personal
accounts to OIC in which their experiences of ?gang database??related
strategies?including misidentification, harassment, obstacles to immigration relief,
and racial profiling?furthered the divide between themselves and the police. Based
on the accounts and testimonies provided to OIC, it is apparent that the lack of
transparency around ?gang data base,? coupled with community experiences of
?gang data base??related strategies, strain police?community relations.

B. OVERVIEW OF KEY RECOMMENDATIONS

Based on insufficient controls, absent procedural fairness protections, data quality
concerns, and the impact on police?community relations, CPD should underta I<e a
holistic evaluation ofthe ongoing utility and impacts of continuing to collect gang
designations. Ifthe Department elects to continue collecting these data, CPD and the
City of Chicago must implement comprehensive changes to address the issues
detailed in this report. OIC offers 30 recommendations on the utility, collection,
maintenance, sharing, impacts, and data quality of gang designations. Key
recommendations to CPD and the City include:

0 Evaluate, in partnership with stakeholders, whether collecting, maintaining,
sharing, and using gang information best serves violence reduction efforts in
the city, including with consideration ofthe collateral consequences ofthese
practices. Avenues for partnership may include, but are not limited to:
conducting a formal and publicly reported evaluation, holding public hearings,
and participating in City Council hearings;

Codify processes for su pervisory and/or expert?level review of gang
designations;

Formally require the inclusion and assessment ofspecified types of evidence
required to support proposed gang designations;

0 Notify individuals who have been designated as a gang member;

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0 Establish a process by which individuals can contest or appeal their gang
designation;

0 Regularly review gang designations to evaluate ongoing accuracy;

0 Develop and implement a means to purge inaccurate or outdated gang
designations;

0 Establish formal written agreements with external agencies and regularly audit
external agency access and use based on clearly defined metrics;

0 Provide regular public reports on collection, storage, use, and sharing of
gang?related data;

0 Consider implementing additional protections and restrictions for sharing
gang?related data with external agencies including, but not limited to,
immigration enforcement agencies;

0 Establish a committee of stakeholders with a formal role in ongoing reforms;
and

0 Consider legislative amendments to the Welcoming City Ordinance that would
remove exceptions based on the individual being ?identified as a known gang
member either in a law enforcement agency's data base or by his own
admission.?

In its response to this report, CPD agreed with findings and largely concurred
with many of OlC?s recommendations and partially concurred or disagreed with
others. CPD acknowledged that its gang information policies, practices, and
technology had impeded the Department?s ability to maintain updated and relevant
information. CPD proposed the development of a new system to collect and store
gang information, the Criminal Enterprise Database (CED). As proposed by the
Department, CED will be a single, unified system that ensures the inclusion of
updated and vetted information, the purging ofoutdated gang information, and a
process for members ofthe public to ascertain and appeal their designation as a
gang member or affiliate. CPD also indicated that the new system will incorporate
additional protections when sharing gang information with third parties. However, it
should be noted that these proposed controls and reforms do not apply to the gang
information currently maintained by the Department and that this unverified,
outdated information will remain available to any officer or department that currently
has access to this information.

While the Department has signaled intentions to reform its gang?related technology
and information practices, response and proposed measures diverge from
OlC?s recommendations in several critical ways. The Department?s response indicates
that CPD will not engage with community stakeholders in the fashion that OIC
recommends. response also deviates from recommendations with the
proposal of an appeals process that involves several substantive barriers and no
additional protections forjuveniles.

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OBJECTIVES, SCOPE, AND METHODOLOGY

This report focuses on collection, maintenance, and sharing of gang?related
data. The purposes ofthis report are to: provide greater transparency about 
gang designation practices, identify the risks associated with these practices, and
provide recommendations to address such risks. This report does not examine the
accuracy of individual gang designations nor the efficacy ofthe Department?s use of
the information after it is collected, including for investigative purposes.

 

In the course of its review, OIC examined relevant Department directives, attended
gang?related trainings at the Training Academy, and Interviewed Department
personnel across ranks from the Bureaus of Patrol, Detectives, Organized Crime,
Organizational Development, and Technical Services. OIC also examined various
forms, data bases, and visualization tools the Department uses to capture, store,
access, and formally share gang information.

OIC additionally reviewed policies and interviewed representatives from other
municipalities that collect and store gang information, including New York City, New
York; Los Angeles, California; Providence, Phode Island; Boston, Massachusetts; and
Portland, Oregon. OIC also interviewed the California State Auditor regarding its 2016
report on the CalCang Criminal Intelligence System.4 OIC also Interviewed academics
with expertise in matters pertaining to gangs.

OIC Interviewed members ofthe Illinois State Police (ISP), Cook County State?s
Attorney?s Office (CCSAO), Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Safety and Security, Cook
County?s Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, and Illinois Department ofJuvenile
Justice to determine how CPD shares information about gang designations with
external agencies.5

OIC also reviewed pertinent federal, state, and local statutes to identify ways in which
gang designations may contribute to potential consequences in the areas of criminal
justice and immigration, as well as to identify various standards pertaining to gang
designations and data sharing. OIC also relied on state statutes, administrative
regulations, and CPD policies when examining local file retention requirements.

 

4 The CalCang Criminal Intelligence System, accessed February 2, 2OI9,


5 OIC was unable to engage all ofthe entities relevant to this topic. The Illinois Department of
Corrections (IDOC) responded that they could not speak with the OIC because their directives did not
permit them to disclose requested information about how IDOC tracks and utilizes gang?related data
and receives and shares gang?related data with CPD. Five separate requests to arrange an interview with
the Cook County Department of Corrections (CCDOC) to gain an understanding about how CCDOC
tracks and utilizes gang?related data and receives and shares gang?related data with CPD was, on each
occasion, unfulfilled.

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The data analysis included in this report extends to data from January T, 1997, through
November 7, 2018 for which CPD provided direct access to the data. OIC validated the
final dataset for all Cang Arrest Cards through a random selection process and
compared this information to data in system Citizen and Law Enforcement
Analysis and Reporting (CLEAP). Additionally, OIC examined arrest allegations
associated with Cang Arrest Cards, as well as the frequency with which external
agencies access gang information, between January T, 2009 and October 31,
2018.

Finally, OIC participated in public forums in four Chicago communities on the South
and West Sides, attended community events about the ?gang data base,? and
interviewed community organizations to hear the concerns and perspectives of
Chicago community members regarding ?gang database.?6

OIC uses the terms ?gang designation,? ?gang information,? and ?gang?related data?
instead of ?gang database? because CPD does not have a single, unified database
where such information resides. For the purposes ofthis report, ?gang designation?
means the labeling ofan individual or area as gang?involved. ?Cang information? or
?gang?related data? indicate gang designations documented by CPD in Department
forms and systems ?this information can also appear in various Department reports
and visualization tools.

OIC conducted this review in accordance with Green Book standards under the
authority of City of Chicago Municipal Code 2?56?210 and 

 

6 participated in four ?Community Conversations? in Garfield Park, Austin, Little Village, and Back of
the Yards in March and April of 2018, The sessions provided a forum for participants to communicate
their concerns and experiences surrounding the ?gang data base? Two sessions were held in Chicago
Public Libraries, one session was held in a Chicago Park District, and one was held in a Chicago Public
School OIC staffalso observed two ?gang data base? community events in June of 2018.

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BACKGROUND

A number of police departments and communities around the country are assessing
the utility and ramifications oftracking gang?related data. The national discussion has
been and continues to resonate as an issue ofgreat local concern. OIG conducted
this review in response to and in consideration of a variety of stakeholder concerns.

 

A. STAKEHOLDER CONCERNS

OIC interviewed a diverse collection of local and national stakeholders including: law
enforcement officials, community organizations, criminal justice agencies, academics,
auditing agencies, criminal and civil rights attorneys, and members of numerous
communities in Chicago. Among these stakeholders, OIC consistently heard the
following:

0 Violence is a critical concern for individuals and communities.

0 Gangs typically form out of a context of inequality, such as discrimination,
poverty, lack of employment opportunities, and lack of safety.

0 Although gangs play a role in violence, an over?reliance on gang designations
may obscure the fact that numerous violent incidents are the result of
interpersonal disputes rather than on the basis of gang affiliations.

If law enforcement agencies continue to utilize gang data bases, controls and
procedural protections must be instituted to ensure accuracy and procedural
fairness for designated individuals.

0 The criteria utilized to identify individuals as gang members may be overly
inclusive, resulting in over?identification, criminalization, and resulting
stigmatization that alienates individuals and communities from the police.

0 Gang designations can result in serious collateral consequences for individuals
designated as gang members and their families, in areas including, but not
limited to: criminaljustice, education, public benefits, immigration, and
differential treatment in encounters with the police.

0 The majority of individuals designated by law enforcement as gang members
are Black or African American and Latinx, disproportionate to local and national
demographics.

In Chicago, recent investigations, publications, lawsuits, and legislation have raised
questions about application, maintenance, use, and sharing of gang
designations, and whether these are based on accurate information, improve public
safety, provide procedural fairness protections, impact police?community relations,
and result in collateral consequences for individuals and communities.



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B. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FINDINGS

The January 2017 Department ofJustice (DOJ) investigation of CPD found that the
Department?s gang?related intelligence?gathering methods potentially place
individuals at risk. These practices included arresting or detaining individuals and
refusing to release them until they share information about gang?related activities.
The practices cited by DOJ also included officers taking youth to a rival gang
neighborhood and either leaving the individual there or displaying the individual to
rival members, ?immediately putting the life ofthat young person injeopardy by
suggesting he has provided information to the police.?7

DOJ cited experiences from youth who stated that, when interacting with CPD,
officers suspect that youth are engaged in criminal activity or members of a gang
based solely on their appearance. Members of various Chicago communities also
expressed to DOJ being ?very concerned? about the presumption ofgang affiliation
?not only because ofthe assumptions it made about people, but because it also
provides a false narrative that can follow these individuals in future interactions with
the police and the criminal justice system.?8

C. LOCAL ACADEMIC STUDIES AND MEDIA

The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Policing in Chicago Research Group released
two iterations of a report regarding ?gang database??the first in February 2018
entitled ?Tracked and Ta rgeted? and the second in June 2018 entitled ?Expansive and
Focused.?9 Both reports detail concerns that ?gang database? is inaccurate and
promotes racial discrimination.10 In addition, press outlets in 2017 and 2018 reported
on alleged inaccuracies and racial inequalities found in gang?related data released by

 

7 United States Department ofJustice Civil Pights Division and United States Attorney?s Office Northern
District of Illinois, ?Investigation ofthe Chicago Police Department,? January 13, 2017, page 143, accessed
February1, 2019, see p.15?16 regarding the practices of
officers taking youth to a rival gang neighborhood.

8 United States Department ofJustice Civil Pig Division and United States Attorney?s Office Northern
District of Illinois, ?Investigation of the Chicago Police Department,? January13, 2017, p, 143, accessed
February 1, 2019, 

9The Policing In Chicago Research Group, ?Tracked and Targeted: Early Findings on Chicago?s Cang
Database,? February1, 2018, accessed February, 2019, 


UIC Policing In Chicago Research Group, in collaboration with The Chicago Coalition To Expand
Sanctuary and The Campaign To Erase The Gang Database, ?Expansive and Focused Surveillance: Nevv
Findings on Chicago?s Cang Database,? June, 2018, accessed February1, 2019,


2018_final,pdf.
?0 010 has not evaluated the methodology of the UIC studies and therefore cannot confirm its findings.

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CPD through FOIA requests.H Finally, over the past two years community groups
hosted ?teach?ins? and workshops to discuss concerns with respect to ?gang
data base? and mechanisms to advocate for changes.12

D. RECENT LITIGATION

In May 2017, the MacArthur Justice Center filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Wilmer
Catalan?Pamirez alleging violations of 42 USC ?1983, the Mone/l doctrine, and the
Illinois Civil Pights Act (ICPA), for injuries arising from his designation as a gang
member by CPD.13 Catalan?Pamirez?s ICPA claim specifically alleged that gang
designations violated the prohibition on racial and ethnic discrimination through the
methods used for gathering and sharing information about alleged gang members.
Catalan?Ramirez further alleged that his inclusion in the database violated his right to
due process, and that he was denied immigration relief as a result, thus leaving him
wrongfully vulnerable to deportation. On December S, 2017, the City of Chicago
settled the suit. In the settlement, CPD acknowledged: cannot verify that Mr.
Catalan?Ramirez is a gang member as defined by the Illinois Streetgang Terrorism
Omnibus Prevention Act (740 

On June 19, 2018, several organizational plaintiffsl5 and four individual plaintiffsl6 filed a
federal civil rights class action complaint alleging systematic deficiencies and
constitutional violations in the creation, use, and maintenance of gang

data base. The suit states that gang database is ?arbitrary, discriminatory, over?
inclusive, and error?ridden,? and that CPD disproportionately targets Black and Latinx

 

?1 Celeste LeCompte, ?Download the Gang Databases We Got From Illinois State Police, Cook County
Sheriff's Office and Chicago Police Department,? ProPub/ica Illinois, July 20,2018, accessed February1,
2019, 
sto_re, and Annie Sweeney and Paige Fry, ?Nearly 33,0001uveniles arrested over last two decades labeled
as gang members by Chicago police,? Chicago Tribune, August 9,2018, accessed February 1, 2019,



?2 Chicago Teachers Union, ?Black Brown Educators: A Teach?In on the Gang Database,? June 8, 2018,
accessed February 1, 2019, 
the?dand?database/, and Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD) et al., ?Erase the

Data base,? accessed February1, 2019, http://erasethedata basecom/press/

?3 Catalan?Pamirez v. Wong, et al., No.17?cv?32S8 (ND. filed May 01,2017) and Pedrote?Salinas v.
Johnson, et al., No.17?cv?SO93 (N.D. Ill filed July11, 2017).

?4 Settlement Agreement at 8, Catalan?Ramirez v. Wong, et al., No.17?cv?3258 (ND. Dec. 5, 2017).

?5 Chicagoans for an End to the Gang Database, Black Youth Project 100 Chicago, Blocks Together,
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, Latino Union, Mijente, and Organized Communities Against
Deportations. Chicagoans For An End To The Gang Database v. City ofChicago, et al., No.18?cv?4242 (N.D.
Ill filed June 19, 2018). Chicagoans for an End to the Gang Database is a coalition of community
organizations as well as individuals.

?6 Donta Lucas, Jonathan Warner, Lester Cooper, and Luis Pedrote?Salinas. Chicagoans For An End To The
Gang Database v. City ofChicago, et al., No.18?cv?4242 (ND. Ill filed June 19, 2018).

 



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people for inclusion in the data base. This pending lawsuit17 additionally alleges that
CPD ?shares its Gang Data base with numerous third?party agencies, causing
significant known and unknown harm to class members, including deprivations of
employment, licensures, bond, immigration relief, and more.?18

E. LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS

On July 25, 2018, legislation with 46 aldermanic sponsors regarding ?gang
database? was introduced in the City Council which referred it to the City Council
Committee on Public Safety. As introduced, the ordinance proposes, among other
provisions:

T. Prohibition of CPD from designating individuals as gang members and
maintaining a gang database, absent [independent analysis]
establishing that gang designations have a legitimate law
enforcement?related purpose that outweighs the harm caused to
individuals who are designated as gang members;

2. gang designations [must be] verified in accordance with
professionally accepted standards and regularly audited;

3. Individuals included in the data base [must] receive notice and
opportunity to challenge their designation;

4. CPD is prohibited from sharing gang designations and/or information
contained in the gang database with any third party; and

5. gang designations must be free from racial discrimination]9

As ofthe date of publication ofthis report, the proposal remains pending in the Public
Safety Committee ofthe City Council where a hearing has not been set.

F. RECENT CPD STATEMENTS ON GANG INFORMATION

In response to the recent public concern regarding ?gang database,? CPD
Superintendent Eddie Johnson stated in an interview on April 9, 2OT8, ?we recognize
that some people may be mis?identified [as gang members], and we are looking at
processes in terms l<ing them out [of that designation]. It?s important for us
to know who the people are in this city as well as in this state who are

 

?7 The suit is still pending as ofthe date of publication,

?8 Chicagoans For An End To The Gang Database v. City of Chicago, et No. T8?cv?4242 (ND. filed June
i9, 2018),

?9 City ofChicago, Committee on Public Safety, ?Amendment of Municipal Code Chapter 2?84 by adding
new Sections 2?84?50] through 2?84?504 to regulate Chicago Police Department gang data base,? July 25,
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committing crimes and are affiliated with gangs, but I also think we have a
responsibility to get it rig ht.? During the course of review, CPD was working
independently on revising protocols and practices regarding its gang information.

G. GANG INFORMATION
PURPOSE

In interviews with OIG, Department members identified the following purposes for
collecting gang?related data:

0 Officer safety, because gang membership indicates that ?someone is prone to
violence or has a history of resisting arrest?;

0 Safety ofthe individual if they become incarcerated, to ensure they are not
housed with ?rival gang members?;

0 Investigative, to help Department members identify associations between
people;

0 Preventing retaliations through the deployment of police resources;

0 Solidifying Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act charges for
gangs; and

0 Strengthening criminal charges when gang membership is an element ofthe
crime.

DEFINITION OF A GANG

There is no single definition of a gang?laws, policies, research, and individuals vary in
their conceptualization of gangs. CPD as well as national and local laws focus
specifically on criminal gangs. Federally, ?criminal street gang? is defined in )8 US.
Code 521 as an ongoing group, club, organization, or association of five or more
persons:

0 that has as one of its primary purposes the commission of one or more ofthe
criminal offenses described in subsection (c);20

the members of which engage, or have engaged within the past five years, in a
continuing series of offenses described in subsection and

the activities of which affect interstate or foreign commerce.

The Illinois Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act (740 ILCS T47) defines a
gang as, ?any combination, confederation, alliance, network, conspiracy,

 

20 Offenses described in subsection are: a Federal felony involving a controlled substance (as
defined in section iO2 ofthe Controlled Substance Act (2) USC. 802)) for which the maximum penalty is
not less than five years; (2) a Federal felony crime ofviolence that has as an element the use or
attempted use of physical force against the person ofanother; and (3) conspiracy to commit an offense
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understanding, or other similar conjoining, in law or in fact, ofthree or more persons
with an established hierarchy that, through its membership or through the agency of
any member engages in a course or pattern ofcriminal activity.?

CPD has defined gangs in different ways. As recently as 2OT8, website defined
gangs as, ?group[s] of people who form an allegiance for a common purpose and
engage in violent, unlawful, or criminal activity.?22 In gang?related training that
OIC observed, the Department provided officers with a ?practical definition? of a street
gang: ?an organized group that participates in criminal, threatening, or intimidating
activity within the community.?23

TRAINING

Incoming Department members currently receive six hours oftraining regarding
gangs, comprised of two modules. The first module entitled ?Gangs? addresses gang?
related history, criteria, and groups in Chicago. The second module entitled ?Gang
Violence Reduction Strategy? addresses the Department?s policies and programs
relating to gangs, as well as technological tools available for policing gangs. All ofthe
training occurs at the Training Academy when CPD members are considered
recruits?there are no official CPD refresher or update trainings after graduating from
the Academy.24 Further, according to Departmental interviews, CPD teams with a
specialization in gangs, such as the Gang Enforcement Teams and the Gang
Investigations Teams, receive no additional internal gang?related trainings beyond
the six hours members received as new recruits at the Training Academy.

INTERNAL 

According to Departmental interviews, every sworn member has access to certain
sources of gang?related data, including gang designations recorded on
Investigatory Stop Reports USPS) and Gang Arrest Cards. Any sworn member can
designate an individual as a gang member on these forms.25 CPD members further
indicated in interviews that the majority of gang designations are generated by
officers in the Bureau of Patrol. However, Bureaus and Divisions across the

 

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22 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Introduction to Gangs,? accessed January T6, 2018,
This webpage is no longer active and this
definition can no longer be found on website.

23 OIG attended ?Gangs? training on June 4, 2018.

24 In interviews with CPD, Department members frequently stated that training on gangs after the
Academy occur ?on thejob.?

25 According to interviews, CPD members generally complete forms electronically in various CPD
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Department vary in their access to other Departmental sources of gang?information
and their tools for entering gang?related data.26

DESIGNATION OE INDIVIDUALS AS 

CPD designates individuals as gang members on a multitude of forms, and some of
these designations can later be searched in systems by the individual?s name,
home address, nickname, tattoo description, and other identifiers.

Special Order27 entitled ?Gang and Narcotics?Related
Enforcement? delineates criteria for identifying ?criminal street gangs? and ?criminal
street gang membership.?28 Identification ofa criminal street gang must be based on
?specific, documented, and reliable information,? including:

0 analysis of crime pattern information;

observations by Department members;

0 vvitness interviews;

0 interviews of admitted criminal street gang members; and

0 information received from informants who have proven themselves to be
reliable in the past.29

As enumerated in identification of an individual as a criminal street
gang member requires ?probable by the Department member's
experience and knowledge of criminal street gangs and corroborated by specific,
documented, and reliable information,? including, but not limited to:

the individual's admission of membership;

 

26 For additional information on the various Bureaus and Divisions CPD described to OIC as involved in
gang designations, tracking, and enforcement, see Appendix A.

27 policies, also known as ?directives,? are called either ?General Orders? or ?Special Orders.? Publicly
available directives can be found at 

28 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, Gang and Narcotics?Related Enforcement,?
January 01, 2016, Section II, accessed February1, 2019,

Criteria for criminal street gang membership is also described in lesser detail in Gang Violence
Reduction Strategy directive: City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?010?01 Gang Violence
Reduction Strategy,? January1, 2016, accessed February1, 2019,


29 The order further states: ?these are merely examples, and information for identi?/ing a criminal street
gang may be gathered from a variety of lavv enforcement sources or analyses," City of Chicago, Chicago
Police Department, Gang and Narcotics?Related Enforcement,? January 01,2016, Section II,
accessed February 1, 2019, 
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the wearing of distinctive emblems, tattoos, or similar markings indicative of a
specific criminal street gang;30

0 the use ofsignals or symbols distinctive of a specific criminal street gang;

0 identification ofthe individual as a member or affiliate of a specific criminal
organization by an individual who has provided reliable information to the
Department in the past and whose information can be independently
corroborated; and

identification of individuals as a member of a specific criminal organization by
another Department member who has specialized knowledge and expertise
concerning the subject criminal organization??

Notably, these criteria do not require participation in criminal activity for an individual
to be designated by CPD as a gang member.

In interviews with OIC, Department members indicated additional ways in which
these designations may occur. Members stated that an officer may also designate an
individual as a gang member when the individual is ?in the company of? other
individuals designated as gang members, or when officers observe what they believe
to be gang signals, in person or on social media. In gang?related investigations, the
Bureau ofOrganized Crime can use ?ravv intelligence? from Confidential Informants
(Cls) and vviretaps to establish individuals as gang members.

Department members further indicated to OIC that criteria for identifying
gang membership may be over?inclusive and less relevant to the landscape today.
Members stated, ?You can?t use the direction of someone?s hat anymore, people tip
their hats as a fashion statement novvadays,? ?Even if an individual may bear the
visible tattoos of one gang, he or she may have another gang,? and
?Color of clothing isn?t as relevant today.?

DESIGNATION OF GEOGRAPHIC APEAS AS 

The Department also designates areas as gang?involved, including identifying
geographic boundaries ofgang activity and gang territories in Chicago. According to
CPD SO. ?Selection of Designated Enforcement Areas,? areas may be
designated as gang?involved based on the following criteria:

 

ECAs per 8.0. ?these criteria apply only when such emblems, tattoos, or similar markings would
not reasonably be expected to be displayed by any individual except a member ofthat specific criminal
street gang. Membership may not be established solely because an individual is wearing clothing
available for sale to the general public.?

3? City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, Gang and Narcotics?Related Enforcement,?
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0 analysis of crime;

0 objective input from the executive officer, watch operations lieutenants, station
supervisors, the district tactical lieutenant, and the CAPS sergeant;

0 information from Beat Community Meeting;

0 input from community members, local community?based organizations, and
elected officials;

0 personal observations;

0 intelligence; and other verifiable statistical information.

In interviews with OIC, Department members stated that CPD may designate areas
as gang?involved based on any ofthe following: the type of graffiti in the community,
the number ofgang?identified individuals living in the area, and understanding
ofthe gang?related history in the area. Further, when designating an area as a gang
?Hot Spot,? the Bureau of Patrol will examine stops purportedly involving gang?
related activity and the number ofgang?related loitering citations previously issued in
the area.

Once an area has been designated as gang?involved, CPD may deploy specific
strategies to target gang members and activity in those areas. These strategies can
include: Targeted Vehicle Enforcement, dispersing and/or arresting individuals
believed to be gang members loitering with others believed to be gang members in
the designated area, and ?Gang Missions? that can include ?aggressive patrol and
violence suppression missions.?2

Through CLEAP, Department members can access a module called ?Caboodle,? a
map?based data visualization tool that allows CPD officers to look up gang
boundaries and gang?identified individuals. People designated as gang members
can be linked to areas designated as gang?involved.

DATA TOOLS

Although often characterized as a uniform system, ?gang data base? rather
consists of many forms and webpages contained in CLEAP, CPD data bases external
to CLEAP, pa per files, and information captured by external entities. CPD does not
have a single gang data base.33

Designations of individuals and areas as gang?involved can appear in a number of
places in data systems, and there are distinctions between where the
information can be entered and searched, saved and reported, and visualized.

 

32 See Appendix for more information about these area?related strategies.
33 See Appendix for a diagram provided by CPD to OIC with the Department?s depiction of
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Citizen and Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting (CLEAR)

The CLEAR system consists oftransactional applications, a data warehouse, and
visualization tools.34

The transactional applications (through which officers can enter and search for data)
in CLEAR allow Department members to complete reports such as Tactical Response
Reports and Investigatory Stop Reports, as well as search for completed reports. Each
application is separate from every other application; therefore, Department members
can search for information about individuals in each application, or through the
search tool ?Na me Check.? Name Check searches across several applications,
including Investigative Alerts, Sex Offenders, Cases, Adult and Juvenile Arrests, Search
Warrants, Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) Records,

Adult and Juvenile Warrants, Traffic Stops, Tactical Response, Contact Cards, Missing
Persons, and Inventories. Information entered into CLEAR applications by officers is
automatically saved to data warehouse.35

data warehouse enables Department members to generate summary reports
on aggregate data from CLEAR applications. The data entered into the applications
and saved in the warehouse can then be utilized to generate reports regarding gang?
related information, such as District Intelligence Bulletins. Further, information from
the data warehouse is used to generate visualization tools.

Some visualization tools accessed through CLEAR allow Department members to
view information?data from various applications in CLEAR and other
Departmental forms that are connected and displayed. Two examples of gang?
related visualization tools are Link Analysis and Caboodle; the former connects
individuals with records ofthe crimes for which they were arrested as well as
individuals with whom they were arrested, and the latter displays maps of areas
designated as gang?involved as well as individuals designated as gang?involved,
drawing on Information generated during Gang Audits.36 Caboodle also displays other
information not specifically related to gangs, such as maps pertaining to block clubs,
Safe Rassage routes, and schools.

Unlike other gang?related tools, gang information displayed In Caboodle Involves
review processes relating to the Gang Audit. The Gang Audit is conducted periodically

 

34 See Appendix for images of select data points described below.

35 The data warehouse includes a variety of data entered by CRD, notjust gang?related data,

36 Gang Audits are periodic assessments of gang boundaries and conflicts conducted by CRD personnel.
City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Cangs: Hour 4, Gang Identifiers Resources and Strategies
for Dealing with Gangs,? 2014.

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in each district.37 During the Audit, Department members from several units
complete the Gang Audit Questionnaire detailing the following district?specific
information:

. gang names

. gang faction names

0 territorial borders

0 faction size

0 criminal activity and documentation of such

0 rivals and active conflicts

alliances and active alliances

organizational level

0 violence level

0 the most active or influential members of each faction38

To complete the Questionnaire, each district reviews the previous year?s Audit to
evaluate whether the conflicts, boundaries, members, and other components are still
applicable?drawing on data sources such as Gang Arrest Cards, information from Cls,
and subject?matter knowledge from Department members such as representatives
from the Gang Investigations Division. According to interviews, once each district
completes the Questionnaire, Deployment Operations Center (DOC) ?verif[ies]
the intelligence [and] worl<[s] in CIS39 to ensure the maps properly represent the
information? in the Caboodle visualization tool. DOC Cang verify the
intelligence in the Questionnaire through examining information sources such as
interviews, Contact Cards/I nvestigatory Stop Reports, reports of shots fired, and
incidents.

In interviews, Department members frequently described Caboodle as ?the closest
thing to a gang database.? Images ofthe Caboodle application, as well as a diagram
ofthe Gang Audit process are provided below.

 

37 According to Department directives, Gang Audits must occur at least once per year, but ?more if
necessary.? Districts may also request Gang Audit Update Sessions to add or modify information from the
yearly audits.

38 According to Department directives, the following members must be present for each district?s Gang
Audit: District commander; district tactical team lieutenant; District Intelligence Officer; district members
selected by the district commander based on their knowledge ofgang activity in their districts;
representatives from the Gang Enforcement Division, Narcotics Division, Gang Investigations Division,
and Bureau of Organized Crime; and a crime analyst from the Deployment Operations Center. For
images of the Gang Audit questionnaire, see Appendix D.

39 CIS is mapping software.

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CPD Databases External to CLEAP, Paper Files, Information Captured by External
Entities

There are several sources of gang information that exist outside of CLEAP. For
example, CPD has an Administrative Message System vvhere officers may send
information to Department members, including messages about gang?related
concerns?this system can be searched by keyword. This information may be
documented in reports such as Officer Safety Alerts. In addition, the Information
Report System houses Information Peports circulated internally within the
Department that outline information about ?police concerns,? Including gangs.
Beyond these sources, CPD also collects gang?related information through contact
with CIs, Wire?tapping during investigations, and other mechanisms outside of
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dating back to the l900s.40 Additionally, CPD has access to gang?related data
generated by IDOC and other agencies/*1

OlC?s review of CPD directives, forms and documents, as well as interviews with
Department members, revealed that CPD has collected, reported, and visualized
gang?related data in at least l8 different forms, records or system of records
throughout the past lO years. However, according to interviews and Departmental
responses to document requests, CPD does not know all ofthe places where gang?
related data exist. See Appendix for a list of locations where OIC determined gang
information resides within information systems.

VERIFICATION

When designating an individual as a gang member, CPD has limited processes for
verifying the identity ofthe individual being designated, as well as for verifying the
accuracy ofthe gang designation itself.

Verified Identity

According to the Department, the only method through which an individual?s identity
can be verified?meaning that their identity has been established as unique, their
own, and unable to be confused with that of anyone else?s?is through fingerprinting,
which typically occurs during an arrest. As such, as per Departmental interviews, the
only gang?related data source where the identities of individuals are verified are Cang
Arrest Cards, which are a section on the Arrest Report for designating an individual as
a gang member. In all other interactions between CPD and community members
where an individual may be designated as a gang member, the individual?s identity is
not verified. This means that an individual designated as a gang member during an
Investigatory Stop, for example, who stated their name as ?John Doe? may or may not
be the same ?John Doe? listed in a Cang Arrest Card, or the ?John Doe? listed in
another Investigatory Stop Peport (ISP).

Further, according to the Department, between January l997 and July 20l8 there
were 841,776 Contact Cards indicating gang affiliations and 524,676 Cang Arrest
Cards. Because individuals were not fingerprinted?and may not have presented any
form of identification?during Contact Card interactions, CPD is unable to determine
whether each Contact Card was completed for a unique individual, and whether
individuals recorded on the Contact Cards are the same as those recorded in Cang
Arrest Cards. As a result of the lack of fingerprinting in every encounter in which gang

 

40 The Department was unable to definitively report when CPD began tracking gangs, According to
Departmental interviews, CPD may have started tracking gangs as early as the 

4? See section Externa/Agencies Sharing Gang?Pe/ated Data with CPD for more information on gang?
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designations occur, the Department cannot definitively report how many unique
individuals have been designated as gang members across all data collection
methods. Further, the Department cannot ensure that gang designations collected
without fingerprinting are used by CPD in relation to the actual individual featured in
the designation, and not another individual with the same name and/or other
characteristics.

Verified Intelligence

CPD does not have any verification processes for ensuring the accuracy of gang
membership designations, such as formal supervisory review ofthe designation,
documentation of supporting evidence, or review by an expert in gangs.42 CPD
considers court documentation designating an individual as a gang member and
?self?admission? to be verified intelligence.43 However, interviews with both CPD and
community members highlighted potential limitations in considering self?admission
in particular as verified. For instance, interviewees reported that individuals may claim
to be a member ofa different gang than their actual affiliation, young people might
experience peer?pressure to identify as a gang member even if uninvolved, and
individuals may feel compelled by police to confess gang membership.

RETENTION AND MODIFICATION

CPD forms, including forms where gang designations can appear, fall under the
purview ofthe Illinois Local Records Act (LPA) and thus constitute public records. The
LPA establishes that altering, concealing, and destroying these public records is
illegal, except where permitted by law.44

Under the LPA, CPD must retain the public records for certain periods oftime. After
the retention period for the public records has elapsed, CPD may seek permission
from The Local Pecords Commission of Cook County for the destruction ofthose
records. Petention timefra mes can range from ?none,? meaning that the Department
does not have to retain the record, to ?permanent,? meaning that the Department
must retain the record forever. Petention timeframes listed as ?pending? have yet to

 

42 Qualification as an expert can include, but is not limited to, receiving specialized trainings in gangs,
experience in violence prevention, and academic expertise relating to gangs.

43 In interviews, Department members stated that most individuals designated as gang members by
CPD ?self?admit.?

44 An example ofa lawful destruction of records is when ajuvenile record is expunged through a court
order, or depending on the offense, automatically after a certain period of time elapses. The Juvenile
Court Act states that ?expunge? means ?to physically destroy the records and to obliterate the minor's
name from any official index or public record, or both.? Similarly, an adult may seek expungement of
certain arrest reports and/or convictions under the Illinois Criminal Identification Act. The LPA also states
that if an individual is arrested and is later determined not to be the intended arrestee, the arrest report
can be retracted or deleted altogether.

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be determined by the Local Records Commission. is not required to retain a
record permanently, the Department may legally destroy the record once the time
required by the retention timeframe elapses and the Department has petitioned and
received clearance from the Local Records Commission.45 Further, directive SO.
09?03?01 ?Pecords Management? states: ?records may be accumulated beyond the
authorized retention period for an additional period of time not to exceed six police
periods According to interviews with CPD, this means that the
Department, by its own policy, requires that records past their retention timeframe
cannot be retained for more than six months.

In various previous versions ofthe retention schedule, CPD was required to retain
Cang Arrest Cards between two and ten years. After this time elapsed, CPD could
destroy these records with permission from the Local Records Commission. However,
in the current retention schedule, Gang Arrest Cards are not listed.

According to CPD, if information in a form completed by a Department member is
later determined to be inaccurate, such as an individual incorrectly designated as a
gang member, the information can be changed through a court order. Beyond court
orders, the Department addresses incorrect information by attaching a
Supplementary Report to the original form. The Supplementary Report will describe
which information in the original form was inaccurate.

EXTERNAL AGENCY ACCESS AND AGREEMENTS

CPD shares gang?related data with agencies external to the Department, and also
accesses gang?related data from external agencies.

External Agencies with Access to Cang?Pelated Data in CLEAP

According to CPD, over 500 agencies external to CPD can access various sources of
gang?related data in CLEAP.47 Among others, these agencies include the Cook
County Sheriff?s Office, IDOC, CCSAO, Homeland Security/ICE, US Citizenship and
Immigration, FBI Gang Intelligence Center, High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, and
US Customs and Border Protection?Chicago. CPD reported that all agencies must
complete an application for access to CLEAP.48 Each agency, once approved for

 

45 Pecords cannot be destroyed ifthere is any pending or anticipated litigation, or other state, local, or
federal requirements pertaining to the retention. According to Departmental interviews, CPD cannot
currently destroy any records due to an order from relating to a specific case,

46 CPD members indicated that ?police periods? are synonymous with ?months.?

47 For the list of external agencies with access to CLEAP provided by CPD to OIC, see Appendix E,
According to Departmental interviews, agencies vary in the specific sources of gang information
they can access,

48 See Appendix for the application for CLEAP access.

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access, may have an unlimited number of users.49 Beyond this initial application, CPD
does not have any agreements with user agencies delineating the ways in which
agencies use CLEAR data, including information on gang designations.SO

OIC analyzed internal and external agency access to gang?related tables from
JanuaryT, 2009, through October 31, 2018, through the Gang Query Audit?? 
analysis of all gang?related queries of gang information revealed that over 35%
of queries were conducted by external agencies.52

TABLET: COUNT OE QUERIES BY AGENCY CLASSIFICATION

0f
.iger marl-3" E5 1'3 3? TCIEI
Exte'F'a 1.35-4.15: 35.53%
0h tag-3 Departme wt 2.511.109 54.53%
S'ardTatal 3.5003]. 100.0%:

Table 7 displays the distribution of records based on agency classification. External agencies are defined
as any agency that is not CPD.

Outside of CPD, the some ofthe most frequent users of gang information
include the Cook County Sheriff?s Department, IDOC, and the FBI. The top ten
external agencies represent approximately 92.3% of all external queries. The
remaining 327 external agencies that ran queries accounted for less than 8% ofall
external queries. Over a quarter of external agencies that have run gang?related
queries have averaged less than one query annually over the past ten years.

 

49 Criteria for users include: ?users must be full time criminal justice agency employees or certified as
police officers in the State oftheir employment ofthe participating police department /criminal justice
agency. Users must have no history of felony convictions; participating local criminaljustice agencies in
Illinois must submit a State of Illinois Identification (SID) Number for each user as evidence that a
criminal history background check was previously conducted for an employee. Outside of Illinois each
CLEAR user must be uniquely identified.?

50 The only limitation listed in the application is that ?all inquiries [in the CLEAR system] must be for
criminal justice purposes only.? The application also enumerates mandatory security requirements and
notes that ?audits will be conducted to review usage by agencies and individuals authorized to make
such inquires.? However, the application does not indicate which agency will conduct such audits.

5? Gang Query Audit tracks external gang?related queries; however, according to the Department it
also tracks five other types ofqueries in applications that are not related to gangs. These applications
were added to the list tracked by the Gang Query Audit after the Audit was created, for operational
rather than strategic purposes. Non?gang?related applications include ?Facility Information
Management? and ?Probationary Police Officer Evaluation Approvals.? According to CPD, these queries
unrelated to gang information account for less than 4% of external queries tracked by the Gang Query
Audit.

52 CPD reported over 500 external agencies with access to CLEAR. analysis found 337 agencies that
have queried gang?related data in the past 10 years as tracked in the Gang Query Audit, Some of
the 337 external agencies identified in analysis were not present in the list CPD provided to OIC.

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There were seventeen agencies that ran only one gang related query during the
entire period.

TABLE 2: COUNT OE QUERIES FOR TOR IO EXTERNAL AGENCIES

Number of %of %of

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Agency Name Agency Type Rank Queries External Total
COOK COUNTY SHERIFF Apprehe?s'on 8? I 755,096 54.55% 
Booking System
ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF Illinois Agencies Outside 
CORRECTIONS Chicago 2 252,265 I823/o 6.47/0
CHICAGO RUBLIC - .
53 Chicago Public Schools 3 87,302 2.24%
SCHOOLS
FBI. Federal Agencies 4 5.79% 2.06%
COOK COUNTY ADULT IA 8
?Wm ppre e?s'on 5 37,368 2.70% 0.96%
RROB Booking System
Ill' A 'd
HOMELAND ICE gem'es 6 125% 0.44%
Chicago
OFFICE OF EMERGENCY Chicago Law Enforcement 7 1.17% 041%
COM M. AgenCIes
USD HS ICE DRO Federal Agencies 8 088% 
IA 
ILLINOIS STATE ROLICE ?Wm ppre e?s'on 9 i0,224 0.74% 0.26%
Booking System
ALCOHOLTOBACCO AND Alcohol Tobacco and
IO I0 093 0,737 0.269
FIREARMS Firearms 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grand Total 1,278,161 92.34% 32.80%
Table 2 displays external agencies With the highest number ofqueries,

Collectively, immigration?related agencies accounted for over 32,000 or 2.3% of
external agency queries over the analyzed period.

TABLE 3: COUNT OE QUERIES EOR AGENCIES

Number of %of %of
Agency Name Agency Type Queries External Total
HOMELAND ICE Agem'es 125% 0.44%

Outside Chicago
USD DRO Federal Agencies 0,88% 03%
Illinois Agencies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Outside Chicago 2,467 018%) 0.06%)
US CUSTOMS AND BORDER .

PROTECTION CHICAGO Federal AgenCIes 234 0.02%; 0.0T A)
US CITIZENSHIP IMMIGRATION Federal Agencies 53 0,00% 000%
Grand Total 32,224 2.33% 0.83%

Table 3 displays the number ofqueries run by immigration?related agencies over the time period,

 

53 analysis of external agency queries of gang information indicated that CRS constitutes 2%
of external agency queries. However, CRS Safety and Security stated to OIG that CRS (including CRS
Safety and Security) does not have access to gang information systems. Explanations for this
difference may include automated reports that were previously established and continue to be
transmitted but are not currently monitored or received by CRS.

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External Agencies Sharing Oang?Pelated Data with CPD

IDOC is mandated by law to record gang information, and the governing statute
expressly allows IDOC to share that gang information with outside law enforcement
agencies to assist in the investigation and prosecution ofgang?related crime.54 The
IDOC Pecords Data Feed displays gang?related information captured by IDOC and
shared with CPD.55

CPD also accesses the state?wide data system administered by the Illinois State
Police, entitled the Law Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS). LEADS contains
records of individuals identified as gang members by ISP and other law enforcement
and criminal justice agencies throughout the state of Illinois, as well as other data.

H. POTENTIAL COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES OF GANG
DESICI-NATIONS56

gang designations may contribute to potential consequences in the areas of
law enforcement, criminaljustice, immigration, and employment.57

LAW ENFORCEMENT

designation of an individual as a gang member may contribute to enhanced
surveillance through gang?related strategies, as well as enrollment in law
enforcement?related programs. CPD employs numerous strategies specifically
targeting gangs and individuals designated as gang?involved including: Focused
Deterrence, Gang Missions, Gang Loitering Ordinance Enforcement, Cang
Investigations, Targeted Vehicle Enforcement, Area Oang Strategy Meetings, Parole
Compliance Checks, the Gang Intervention Probation Program, and the Targeted
Pepeat Offender Apprehension and Prosecution Program. Two are described in brief
below; for additional information on each ofthese strategies, see Appendix B.

Focused Deterrence, a component of ?Gang Violence Reduction Strategy,?
involves partnerships between law enforcement officials, social service providers, and
community members that deliver messages of ?alternatives? and ?swift, targeted
enforcement? with respect to violence.58 For areas designated as ?Hot Spots,? ?High
Level Oang Conflict Locations,? and ?Areas Associated with a Heightened Level of
Violence,? CPD may issue Gang Loitering Ordinance dispersal orders if two or more
persons are loitering in the area and one ofthe people is a ?known gang member.?

 

54 730 ILCS 

55 According to CPD, the IDOC Data Feed contains gang information on individuals incarcerated at IDOC
and is searchable in CLEAP.

56 This assessment is not intended as an evaluation ofthe appropriateness ofthe consequences or the
frequency at which such consequences are applied,

57 For additional information on these potential consequences, see Appendix B,

58 For additional information on Focused Deterrence, see Appendix B.

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These dispersal orders can require that the individual not return to the specified area
for 8 to 12 hours.59 If individuals return within ?sight or hearing? ofthe area, they can
face imprisonment for not more than six months, a fine between $100 and $500, or
both. Subsequent violations ofdispersal orders can result in additional penalties.60

CRIMINALJUSTICE

Cang membership, gang designation in a database, or gang affiliation may have an
effect on bail and bond, sentencing, sanctions, probation, prison, and parole?? The
magnitude of any effect will vary based on the discretion of prosecutors introducing
gang?related evidence, as well as the weight Courts give to any presented evidence.
All gang information will need to satisfy the applicable admissibility standards,
depending on the phase ofthe criminal proceeding, before it is accepted into
evidence.

As with adults, information relating to gang membership could impactjuveniles
within the criminaljustice system. Instead of a bond hearing,juveniles charged in
juvenile court will appear before the Court for a formal reading of criminal charges
and a ?shelter?care hearing.?62 Designation as a known gang member by CPD may be
offered as evidence in a shelter?care hearing for the Court to determine whether the
juvenile will be detained or released with restrictions. Sentencing for a juvenile
designated as a gang member could include an order that thejuvenile undergo
medical treatment to remove gang?related tattoos. Additionally, if a juvenile is
sentenced to the Department ofJuvenile Justice, certain restrictions will be placed on
thejuvenile once thejuvenile is eligible for parole (called ?aftercare?). One ofthose
restrictions requires that thejuvenile does not associate with persons who are
?members of organized gangs.?

IMMIGRATION

According to Chicago?s Welcoming City Ordinance, City agencies63 are prohibited
from: making threats based on citizenship or immigration status; conditioning
benefits, services, or opportunities on immigrant status; and arresting or detaining
individuals based solely on civil immigration violations. The ordinance and CPD
directives also state that unless there is a legitimate law enforcement purpose,
unrelated to civil immigration enforcement, no Department member shall permit

 

59 The amount of time depends on the classification ofthe area?areas designated as Heightened Level
of Violence are 12?hour dispersal areas. In all other circumstances, the dispersal period is eight hours.

60 For additional information on dispersals, see Appendix B,

6? For additional information on potential criminaljustice consequences, see Appendix B.

62 For additional information on shelter?care hearings, see Appendix B.

63 According to the ordinance, ?agency? means ?every City department, agency, division, commission,
council, committee, board, other body, or person established by authority of an ordinance, executive
order, or City Council order.? City of Chicago, Municipal Code, 2?i73.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents access to individuals being
detained or in the custody permit ICE agents to use Departmental facilities
for investigations, or expend time on duty responding to ICE inquiries about an
individual?s custody status or release date. However, both the ordinance and 
directives exclude these protections from certain classes of individuals, including
individuals ?identified as a known gang member either in a law enforcement agency's
database or by [their] own admission.?65

Gang designations by CPD may also contribute to obstacles for individuals seeking
immigration reliefthrough Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and U?Visas.
DACA allows approved individuals who are undocumented and were brought to the
US as children to remain in the US for a period of two years, during which time the
individual is also eligible for work authorization. U?Visas allow individuals who are
undocumented and have been victims of certain crimes,66 and who ?were helpful, are
helpful, or are likely to be helpful? in the investigation or prosecution ofthe crimes, to
remain in the US and receive work authorization.67 After three years with a U?Visa,
individuals may pursue a green card for permanent residency and eventually, full US
citizenship. According to US Citizenship and Immigration Services, individuals may be
denied authorization because they are considered a ?threat to national security or
public safety? for which ?indicators? include gang membership.68

EMPLOYMENT

According to interviews with CPD, gang designations do not appear on
employment?related background checks unless the individual is applying to work for
CPD. Further, according to interviews with the Illinois State Police (ISP), background
checks conducted by ISP do not include any gang designations unless the individual
is applying to work for a criminal justice agency. OIG did not evaluate the validity of

 

64 ICE is a federal agency that investigates, identifies, apprehends, detains and deports individuals who
may be undocumented in the United States,

65 MCC 

?56 Qualifying crimes include: ?Abduction, Abusive Sexual Contact, Blackmail, Domestic Violence,
Extortion, False Imprisonment, Female Genital Mutilation, Felonious Assault, Fraud in Foreign Labor
Contracting, Hostage, Incest, Involuntary Servitude, Kidnapping, Manslaughter, Murder, Obstruction of
Justice, Peonage, Perjury, Prostitution, Pa pe, Sexual Assault, Sexual Exploitation, Slave Trade, Stalking,
Torture, Trafficking, Witness Tampering, Unlawful Criminal Restraint, and Other Related Crimes.? United
States Department of Homeland Security, Visa Law Enforcement Certification Resource Guide for
Federal, State, Local, Tribal and Territorial Law Enforcement,? p. 3, accessed Februaryl, 2019,


67 United States Department of Homeland Security, Visa Law Enforcement Certification Resource
Guide for Federal, State, Local, Tribal and Territorial Law Enforcement,? p. 2, accessed Februaryl, 2019,


68 United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, ?Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals accessed FebruaryT, 20l9, 
childhood?arrivals?daca,

 

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claims by CPD and ISP that gang information does not appear on employment? and
licensure?related background checks for non?criminaljustice occupations. Further,
although gang information according to CPD and ISP does not appear on
background checks for non?criminal justice employment queries, criminal charges do
appear on background checks. Some criminal charges include allegations of gang
relationships, such as ?Unlawful Possession ofa Firearm by a Street Gang Member?
(720 ILCS 5/2448), ?Obstructing Justice in Furtherance of Cang Pelated Activity (720
ILCS and ?Streetgang Criminal Drug Conspiracy (720 ILCS 

CPD considers gang information when an individual is applying for a position with
the Department. Bureau ofOrganizational Development directive SO. lB?Ol
?Pre?Employment Disqualification Standards for Applicants for the Position of Police
Officer? states, ?An applicant who is a member or affiliate of any criminal organization,
including but not limited to a street gang, will be found unsuitable for employment
[with Prior membership in a criminal organization may be grounds for
disqualification. An applicant who is a former member or affiliate of a criminal
organization will be required to produce acceptable evidence to show that the
membership in or affiliation with the criminal organization ceased for a period of five
(5) that the applicant has no current membership or affiliation with any
criminal organization at the time of processing or hire.?69 When an individual applies
to work for the Department in a civilian or sworn position, CPD and/or vendors
involved in the Department?s hiring process will search CPD databases for gang
designations relating to the individual?including sources the Department considers
?unverified,?7O to determine eligibility for employment at 

 

69 Although CPD does not have specific policies on the requirements for individuals to establish that their
?membershipuceased for a period of five (5) years,? CPD provided the following potential sources of
evidence: references, no record of criminal activity in the required timefra me, and verification from the
candidate. For more, see City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Background Investigation for
Prospective Applicants,? accessed February], 2019, 


70 Department members involved in hiring described gang designations as ?only as good as the people
putting [the data] in,? and emphasized the need for deeper investigations into the data prior to
determining whether an applicant qualifies for employment According to Departmental interviews,
employment investigators will follow up with both the officers who generated gang?related data and the
applicant regarding the designation.

7? CPD emphasized that hiring background investigations related to any alleged gang membership
involve discretion and examining the totality ofthe circumstances, CPD further stated that candidates
may be determined unsuitable for employment based on their association with others identified as gang
members, As an example, Department members stated that court?ordered visits between a candidate
and an individual designated as a gang member may not disqualify the candidate from employment,
but ongoing ?association? without a court order could result in disqualification. If an applicant is denied
employment with CPD, including based on gang designations, the applicant can appeal the denial with
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IV. DATA ANALYSIS
A. GANG ARREST CARDS

When an officer arrests an individual and believes the individual is a member of a
gang, the officer may complete a Gang Arrest Card in the Arrest Report. Although
gang?related data can be captured, reported, and visualized in at least 18 CPD forms
and systems, OIC analyzed Cang Arrest Cards because CPD has previously released
these data to the public with respect to gang designations, and because
fingerprinting during arrest allows for the identification of unique individuals.

 

The Department was unable to report to OIC when it began collecting Cang Arrest
Cards, but the earliest Directive provided to OIC featuring Gang Arrest Cards was
issued in l997. According to the Department, CPD switched from paper Gang Arrest
Card forms to electronic Cang Arrest Card forms in 2004.72

In the course of completing this review, OIC analyzed gang designations captured in
Gang Arrest Cards from January l, l997, through November 7, 20l8. During this time
period, 134,242 individuals were designated as gang members on 523,075 Cang Arrest
Cards.73

 

72 For an image of the electronic Gang Arrest Card, see Appendix D.

73 OIC used the employment status indicated for first arresting officers and determined that 40% ofthe
523,075 Gang Arrest Cards analyzed for this report may not have been completed by CPD officers.
According to CPD, some law enforcement agencies in Cook County enter Arrest Reports and
accompanying Gang Arrest Cards in CLEAR system.

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FIGURE 4: NUMBER OF RECORDS AND INDIVIDUALS IN GANG ARREST DATA
FROM NOVEMBER 7, 2018

50K

"ear of Arrest
Darn hu-rber 3? Re:ards 36 0? Total

199? 59 0.0%
1995 345 0.1%
1999 6,195 1.2%

40K

2000 5,104 1.0%
2001 3,473 0.7%

30K 2001 4,514 0.9%
2003 2,427 0.5%
2004 6,022

2005 115
2006
200?
2005
2009
2010
10K 2011
2011
2013
2014
2015

20K

Number of Garg Car: Racorcs

 

 

OK 2015
201Gina Total
3f5'11
ear_ I Count of Ir?cividuals 36 o?Tctal
A're-A
15K
199?
1995
1999
2000
2001
3 10K 2002
2003
2004
2005
3 2005
200?
2005
5K 2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
OK 2015 2493 19201? 2:2?1 l-m
2015 1,545 1.G'ancl Total 134.142 100.0%

The top graph in Figure 4 above represents the number of Gang Arrest Cards
completed by CPD officers from January 1, 1997, through November 7, 2018. In that
time period CPD completed 523,075 Gang Arrest Cards. The number of Gang Arrest
Cards completed by CPD peaked in 2013 with the Department completing 48,245
Gang Arrest Cards.

The bottom graph represents the number of new individuals (those who had never

previously been designated as gang members in Gang Arrest Cards) CPD designated
as gang members on a Gang Arrest Card. From January 1, 1997, through November 7,
2018, CPD has designated 134,242 individuals as gang members in Gang Arrest Cards.

annual classification of new individuals as gang members in Gang Arrest Cards
peaked in 2006 with 17,209 new individuals, yet the number of Gang Arrest Cards
completed continued to rise in subsequent years peaking at 48,245 in 2013, when the
number of new individuals designated was 6,473. This indicates that CPD continued
to issue Gang Arrest Cards for the same individuals who were previously designated
in Gang Arrest Cards.

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FIGURE 5: GENDER OE INDIVIDUALS DESIGNATED AS GANG MEMBERS BY
CRD EROM JANUARYI, I997 NOVEMBER 7, 20l8

140K

 

 

 

 

 

128.?43
120K Gender Count of 5 56 of Total
Mae 125.?43 
103K Female 5,331 4.094
lnconclusive Gently Classi?cation 105 {11%

50K
2 Gender Unknown 13 0.0%
?6
o?l
?50? G'encl Total 134,142 100.0%
1.J
40K
20K
5,331
or 105 13
Male Female Inconclusive Gender Classi?cation Gender Linknuw'i

CPD classifies individuals by gender using the following categories: ?Female,? ?Male,?
and ?Gender Unknown.? OIG utilized ?lnconcluslve Gender Classification? when an
individual?s gender could not be determined through data.74 Figure 5 above
shows the gender (as determined by CPD officers at the time ofthe arrest) of
individuals designated as gang members. According to these data, males account for
95.9% of all individuals designated by CPD as gang members in Gang Arrest Cards.

 

74 OIG calculated how many records an individual had associated with multiple gender classifications.
Then the most frequently used gender classification was assigned to that individual. The aforementioned
method classified the gender of 798 individuals, approximately 0.6% ofthe total number of individuals. In
the case of a tie, an individual was not given a gender classification. There was a total individuals
that had received an inconclusive gender classification, approximately 01% ofthe total number of
individuals. Gender classifications were validated using random selection and CLEAR data.

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FIGURE 6: RACE OE INDIVIDUALS DESIGNATED AS GANG MEMBERS BY CRD
EROM NOVEMBER 7, 20l8

103K

 

 

 

 

   

 

93.?04
F.a:e 3X: 0? Total
EUR Black American 93.304 59.5%
33.312 25.2%
3 W'tite 5.345 4.0%
3 ml:
Haze Cle ss'?caticr' 1.021 0.3%

Asia'tchac'?clsar'der 24? 0.2%
Ci
Race 0.0%
8 40K
33.511 "idien or Alaskar? l-iati're 51 0.0%
nd Total 134.242 100.0%
20K
OK 1.321 24? 59 51
Black or Africa?: LaTlr'K Wit 1:6 Race A: ar' a-r Pa: ?in: sla Race American Ind ar a-r
Amrican assi?carm Alaskar' r-iati're

CPD classifies individuals by race using the following categories: ?American
Indian/Alaskan Native,? ?Asian/Pacific Islander,? ?Black,? ?White Hispanic,? ?Black
Hispanic,? ?White,? and ?Race Unknown.? For the analyses, OIG utilized these
categories as such: ?American Indian or Alaskan Native,? ?Asian or Pacific Islander,?
?Black or African America ?Latinx,? and ?White.?75 OIG utilized ?lnconclusive Race
Classification? when an individual?s race could not be determined through 
data.76

As depicted in Figure 6 above, Black or African?American and Latinx individuals
combined make up 95% ofthe l34,242 individuals who have been designated as gang
members by CPD at the time of arrest. The Census estimates individuals identifying
as ?Black or African American alone? constitute 30.5% ofthe population in Chicago.77
Individuals classified as Black or African American by CPD constitute 69.8% ofthose

 

75 ?Black? was reclassified as ?Black or African America as ?African America n? was not originally
captured and those individuals that identify as such are often designated as ?Black.? ?White Hispanic?
and ?Black Hispanic? were combined into ?Latinx,? a gender?neutral term for Latino/a, or an individual of
Latin American descent.

76 OIG calculated how many records an individual had associated with multiple race classifications. Then
the most frequently used race classification was assigned to that individual The aforementioned method
classified the race of 5,212 individuals, approximately 39% of the total number of individuals, However, in
the case ofa tie, an individual was not given a race classification, There was a total individuals that
had an inconclusive race classification, approximately 08% ofthe total number of individuals. Race
classifications were validating using random selection and CLEAR data.

77 ?Quick Facts Chicago city, Illinois,? United States Census Bureau, accessed February 4, 20l9,


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identified as gang members in Gang Arrest Cards.78 Individuals identifying as ?White
alone, not Hispanic or Latino? as per the Census constitute 32.7% ofthe population in
Chicago and 4.0% ofthose identified as gang members in Gang Arrest Cards.79

Black or African American and Latinx males accounted for 913% of all individuals
designated as gang members in Gang Arrest Cards.

FIGURE 7: COUNT OE GANG ARREST CARD ARRESTS BY RACE OE ARRESTEE
AND YEAR80

Race

I Black or African Amerlcan
Latinx
White

35K

30K

25K

20K

15K

10K

Number ofGang Arrest Card Records

5K

OK
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Figure 7 above depicts the number of Gang Arrest Cards per year, disaggregated by
races? Whereas arrests with associated Gang Arrest Cards decreased steadily over the
time period for Latinx and White individuals, arrests of Black or African American
individuals with associated Gang Arrest Cards peaked in 2013 while arrests for other
groups continued to decline.

 

78 The Census estimates individuals identifying as ?Hispanic or Latino? constitute 29.0% ofthe population
ofChicago. Individuals categorized as either ?White Hispanic? or ?Black Hispanic? by CRD constitute
25.2% ofthose identified as gang members in Gang Arrest Cards.

79 ?Quick Facts Chicago city, Illinois,? United States Census Bureau, accessed February 4, 2019,


80 This graph excludes arrestees with no valid IR number, along with those classified as American Indian
or Alaskan Native, Asian or Pacific Islander, Race Unknown, and Inconclusive Race Classification.

8* Whereas other figures in this section span January1,1997?November7, 2018, this graph spans JanuaryT,
2009?October 31 2018. These data were analyzed in conjunction with Gang Arrest Card allegations, for
which the timespan was January 1, 2009?October 31, 2018.

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FIGURE 8: AGE AT FIRST ARREST WITH GANG ARREST CARD JANUARY
l, T997 NOVEMBER 7, 20T8

 

Sum ma ry Statistics

 

 

Min edian Average Count oflndiuidLiaIs

 

Arrest Age

Figure 8 above displays the ages of individuals listed at first arrest with an associated
Gang Arrest Card.82 The most frequent age for first arrest with a gang designation in
Gang Arrest Cards was 17. The data show that most ofthose who were designated as
gang members by CPD were designated as such for the first time between the ages
of18 and 31.83CPD has no minimum age for designating an individual as a gang
member; 25% of individuals designated as gang members by CPD were under 18
when they were first designated as a gang member on a Gang Arrest Card.

There is no exit or end time for individuals designated as gang members in Gang
Arrest Cards.84Therefore, the longest an individual could be designated as a gang
member in this analysis is 21 years, as that is the difference from the start time ofthe
analysis in 1997 to the end time ofthe analysis in 2018. Within this dataset, the average

 

82 OIG used two methods to determine date of birth when inconsistent. The first method, similar to race
and gender classification in previous steps, was based on the number of records associated with the
individual?s date of birth. OIG calculated how many records an individual had associated with multiple
dates of birth. Then the most frequently used date of birth was assigned to that individual. The
aforementioned method determined 18,161 individuals dates of birth, approximately 13.5% ofthe total
number of individuals. In the case ofa tie, 016 used a new method to determine the individual?s date of
birth. Ifthe minimum and maximum dates of birth were less than or equal to 365 days, then the median
date was assigned to that individual. There were 2,298 individuals that were assigned dates of birth using
this method, approximately1.7% ofthe total number of individuals. Ifthe minimum and maximum dates
of birth were greater than 365 days, then the individual was assigned an NA value. Overall, there were 922
individuals that did not get an assigned date of birth, 07% of the total number of individuals. Dates of
birth generated from this step were validated using random selection and CLEAR data.

83 Although 17 is the most frequent age for designation in Gang Arrest Cards, the largest share of ages
designated at first arrest with a Gang Arrest Card falls between 18 and 31.

84 CPD members reported to OIG that it may be possible to remove a gang designation ifthe entire
record on which the designation appears is expunged through the Courts,

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number ofyears for which individuals have been designated gang members isl0
years. One person who was first designated in Gang Arrest Cards when they were 9
years old has carried this designation for l9 years. One person who was first
designated in Gang Arrest Cards when they were 75?years?old has carried this
designation for l0 years?this person is now 85 years old. There are 4,029 persons
aged 50 and above currently designated as gang members.

FIGURE 9: RACE AND AGE OF INDIVIDUALS DESIGNATED AS GANG
MEMBERS BY CRD EROM JANUARYI, I997 NOVEMBER 7, 20l8

 

 

 

Figure 9 above depicts both the age and race listed at first arrest with an associated
Gang Arrest Card. The data show that individuals ages 10 through 29 who were
designated as Black or African American and Latinx accounted for 90,802 individuals,
approximately 67.6% ofthe total number of individuals in the Gang Arrest Cards data.
Black or African American and Latinx individuals are designated at both younger and
older ages than White individuals in Gang Arrest Cards.

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EIGURE lO: COUNT OE GANG OE INDIVIDUALS DESIGNATED
AS GANG MEMBERS BY CRD EROM JANUARYT, T997 NOVEMBER 7, 20l8

Gang membership designation

I 1 gang membership designation

Multiple gang membership designation
I No gang membership designation

  
  
  

Fig. 10 provides a visualization of OlG?s analysis ofthe publicly stated stakeholder
perception that some individuals had been listed as members of multiple and/or rival
gangs. OlG?s data analysis revealed that i8.7% of individuals designated as gang
members were listed as members of multiple gangs. For example, one individual has
been classified as a member of nine different gangs, and according to own
training materials several ofthese groups are rivals of each other.85 While it is possible
that individuals have been members of multiple gangs, OIG was unable to determine
from the data why individuals have been listed as members of multiple gangs and
whether any of those designations are accurate or inaccurate.

Notably, OIG found that another ii.3% of individuals had no gang membership listed
in any ofthe Gang Arrest Cards assigned to them, despite being designated as a gang
member. Ofi34,242 individuals, iS,i74 were classified as gang members, but with no
gang listed for which they were a member?the second largest ?gang? to which
individuals are assigned as members is ?blank.?

 

85 The groups included: LORDS, GANGSTER STONES, GANGSTER DISCIRLES, BLACK STONES,
CONSERVATIVE VICE LORDS, UNKNOWN VICE LORDS, EL RUKNS, BLACK DISCIRLES, MAFIA INSANE
VICE 

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TABLE 4: COUNT OE REASON GIVEN EOR GANG DESIGNATIONS FROM
NOVEMBER 7, 20l8

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Designatien Descriptien DesignatienType Individuals efTatal
Multiple for Gang 3 EEC-5:
DESlgnatl?ns 355-: 3.330:

221 

225 [ll 13"3'3}
Na Reason for Gang LEE-43 I5 
DESlgnatlD" 13333 113333
SelfAdmissianGang ELSE-59 
Tetal 113,333 33.13%
Grand Tatal 134,242 100.00%

The above table depicts the reason an individual was assigned a gang designation, as
indicated by the officer making the designation. There were l5,648 individuals for
which CPD has never listed a reason for gang designation during arrest in any Gang
Arrest Card, ll.7% ofthe total. Further, there were 24,l51 Gang Arrest Card records
where there was no reason for designation listed. Less than 0.2% ofthe individuals
had multiple reasons for a gang designation. The remaining ll8,369 individuals self?
identified as gang members according to the officer who made the designation.
Alleged ?self?admission? comprised 88.2% of all designations in the Gang Arrest Cards
data.

EIGURE ll: GANG ARREST CARDS RER INDIVIDUAL AND RACE EROIVI
NOVEMBER 7, 20l8

Race Hitter}

Ra ce

. . InconcILsive Race . American Indiar' or
Black or African American Latinx White or Islander Race Unknown

Classi?cation Alaskan Native
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Fig. II above depicts the number of Gang Arrest Cards per individual, broken down by
race. The number of Gang Arrest Cards per individual ranges from one to 82. Whereas
individuals identified as White constitute 4.0% ofthose designated as gang members
in Gang Arrest Cards, they accounted for 6.2% ofthose with only one Gang Arrest Card
and 2.8% ofthose with more than one Gang Arrest Card. 35 White individuals have 20
or more Gang Arrest Cards (20% of those with more than 20), whereas Black or
African American/Latinx individuals have 20 or more Gang Arrest Cards (978% of
those with more than 20). Further, 97.6% of Black or African American/Latinx
individuals in the dataset have five or more cards. 2.2% ofWhite individuals have five
or more cards.

EIGURE I2: GANG ARREST CARDS BY COMMUNITY AREA OF ARREST EROM
JANUARY I, I997 NOVEMBER 7, 20I8

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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9 EDISON PARK 46 scum CHICAGO
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I2 FOREST GLEN 49 ROSELAND ?31 1 3 "1
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I5 PORTAGE PARK 52 EAST SIDE
Is IRVING PARK 53 WEST PULLMAN
I7 DUNNING 54 RIVERDALE
I8 MONTCLARE 55 HEGEWISCH
I9 BELMONT CRAGIN 56 GARFIELD RIDGE
20 MERMDSA 57 ARCHER 
21 AVONDALE sa BRIGHTON PARK
22 LOGAN SQUARE 59 MCKINLEY PARK
23 HUMBOLDI PARK so BRIDGEPORI
24 WEST TOWN 61 NEWCITY
25 AUSTIN 62 WEST ELSDON

26 WEST GARFIELD PARK 63 GAGE PARK
27 EAST GARFIELD PARK 64 CLEARING
26 NEAR WEST SIDE 65 WEST LAWN

29 NORTH MWNDALE 66 CMCAGO LAWN
30 SOUTH LAWNOALE 67 WEST 
31 LOWER WEST SIDE 68 ENGLEWOOD
32 L009 69 GREATER GRANDCROSSING
33 NEAR SOUTH SIDE 70 AWURN
34 ARWJR SQUARE 7T AUBURN GRESHAM
35 DOUGLAS 72 BEVERLY
73 WASHINGTON HEIGHTS
37 FULLER PARK 74 MOUNI 

75 MORGAN PARK
76 OHARE
77 EDGEWATER

Fig. I2 above maps arrests documented with a Gang Arrest Card by community area.
The lowest number of Gang Arrest Cards produced in any single community area was
27 and the highest was 46,093. On average, 6,290 Gang Arrest Cards were produced
in each community area. In 47 ofthe 77 community areas, the Gang Arrest Cards
completed by CPD in each area account for less than ofthe total respectively. In

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contrast the top 13 of the 77 community areas account for over 50% of locations of
Cang Arrest Cards produced. All 13 ofthese community areas are on the South and
West Sides of Chicago. Austin, the community area with the highest concentration of
Cang Arrest Cards produced, carries 8.8% of Cang Arrest Cards alone. Austin, North
Lawndale, Humboldt Park, and South Lawndale collectively account for
approximately 24% of all Gang Arrest Cards produced.86

GANG ARREST CARD ALLEGATIONS

The data analysis in this section examines arrests for which there is an associated
Cang Arrest Card, and the corresponding arrest charges.87 Arrest charges
predominately fall within three large groups: felonies, misdemeanors, and petty
offenses/ordinance violations. Felony charges are based on serious or violent crime
and are further divided according to the statutory severity of the crime.
Misdemeanors are generally low?level crimes and are not as serious, either in nature
or impact, as felonies. Lastly, petty offenses and ordinance violations are the least
serious group of charges. Generally, an arrestee will be fined if found in violation of a
petty offense or ordinance provision. For more information on the various levels of
criminal charges, see Appendix C.

OIC analyzed 10 years of Cang Arrest Card data, from Januaryi, 2009, through
October 31, 2018. During this timefra me, there were 363,688 arrests with associated
Cang Arrest Cards. The following table shows the number of Cang Arrest Cards
issued, organized by the highest severity charge during the arrest, and presented in
descending order of frequency.88

 

86 To review the Gang Arrest Card counts of individual community areas, refer to Appendix H.

87 The charges listed on an arrest report and used in the data analysis are charges that CPD determined
to be the most appropriate. It is ultimately the responsibility of those in the Cook County State?s
Attorney's Office (CCSAO) to determine the charges to prosecute, This analysis does not examine the
charging decisions of CCSAO or the outcomes of any prosecutions stemming from an arrest.

88 In a single arrest, an individual may be charged with multiple offenses. Ifan individual was charged
with multiple offenses, OIC utilized the highest severity charge among all listed.

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TABLE 5: ALL ARRESTS WITH ASSOCIATED GANG ARREST CARDS BY ARREST
SEVERITY DESCRIRTION RAN KED BY ARREST COUNT EROIVI JAN UARYT, 2009

OCTOBER 3T, ZOI8

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OIG found that Gang Arrest Cards most frequently had a Class A Misdemeanor as the
highest severity charge, 29.9% of Cards issued. Examples of Class A Misdemeanors
include minor drug?related charges as well as reckless conduct, disorderly conduct,
gambling on the street, and gang contact by a barolee.89

 

89 The category of ?Unknown? is listed in system, and largely consists ofarrests based on warrants.

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FINDINGS

A.

CPD LACKS SUFFICIENT CONTROLS IN GENERATING,
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CPD currently does not have any internal mechanism to alter incorrect information?
such as an inaccurate gang designation?or to delete this information. The only
internal tool to indicate that information is incorrect is the attachment of a
Supplementary Report to the original report, but the original gang designation, for
example, would not be modified or deleted through this method.92 Regarding
deletion, CPD members reported to OIC that, ?Currently there is no way to have gang
affiliation removed from Department records, unless the entire record for the
individual is expunged through the courts.? The lack ofthese internal mechanisms
prevents the Department from correcting or removing invalid or out?of?date
designations, enabling inaccurate designations to follow individuals permanently.

Moreover, although some prior gang?related data tools are no longer authorized,
reports from the Department indicate that they are still in use. For example, CPD
ceased utilizing Contact Cards on Januaryi, 2OT6, yet individuals were designated as
gang members times on Contact Cards since this date?including T86 times
between January T, 2OT8, and July 2, 2OT8. Therefore, individuals may be continuing to
receive gang designations through mechanisms no longer permitted by CPD.

As a result ofthese insufficient controls, CPD is unable to confirm that all of its gang
designations are accurate and up?to?date, nor can they confirm the utility for the
Department?s mission to address criminal activity. In addition, the Department is
unable to ensure that CPD members designate individuals as gang members with
sufficient cause.

MAINTENANCE OF DATA

The Department also lacks sufficient controls in the maintenance of gang?related
data, including a complete inventory ofall forms, records, and system of records
where gang information is and can be recorded, reported, and visualized. The
Department was unable to provide data system diagrams depicting the relationships
between various gang?related data. Further, in interviews with OIC, Department
members were unaware of certain records retention requirementscompliance with its own policies regarding retention.

The Department was unable to provide a complete list of all ofthe various forms,
records, and systems of records in which gang information can be recorded, reported,
and visualized in the last 10 years. This raises concerns about the Department?s quality
control of gang?related data, its ability to produce all relevant gang?related
documentation for FOIA requests and litigation, and its capacity to ensure that all

 

92 According to interviews with CPD, Courts may mandate that CPD modify original reports?a process
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gang?related data collection tools serve a legitimate law enforcement purpose and
are used appropriately.

Additionally, the Department does not have any data flow diagrams or entity
relationship diagrams displaying the relationships between tables and variables for
gang?related data. This inhibits the Department?s ability to report on the ways in
which originating gang designations may feed into reports, maps, linking tools, and
other databases, as well as its capacity to ensure that if an originating record is
modified or deleted, this change is implemented in all places where the data from
this record exist.93 For example, such diagrams could be used to assess whether a
change made to a Cang Arrest Card is then reflected in Caboodle, where this
information can be visualized.

CPD additionally maintains gang information for long periods of time despite state
records retention laws that allow such information to be destroyed and Departmental
policies requiring this destruction, and does not have finalized retention timeframes
for several forms on which gang designations can appear.94 In interviews, Department
members stated that they had ?never heard of? the provision in 8.0. 09?03?01
requiring that records past their retention timeframe cannot be retained for more
than six months, and articulated that CPD ?doesn?t throw anything [any records]
away.? As such, the Department cannot ensure that records containing gang?related
data are retained for appropriate amounts oftime and may be in violation of its own
policy to destroy records no more than six months past their retention timeframe.

SHARING OF DATA

The Department further lacks sufficient controls in sharing gang?related data,
including a lack of a definitive list of all external agencies with access to gang?related
information; clear, signed agreements delineating the ways in which external
agencies may use the data; and strong accountability mechanisms to ensure fidelity
to these agreements.

The Department was unable to provide OIC with a comprehensive list ofall external
agencies with access to gang?related information.95 analysis of external agencies
with access to gang?related information in CLEAP revealed external agencies with
access that CPD did not disclose to OIC, and the Department was unable to explain
why the list provided to OIC was incomplete. This raises serious concerns about the

 

93 According to CPD interviews, the only mechanism currently for a gang designation to be modified or
deleted is through the Courts,

94 For example, the Gang Audit Questionnaire and the Hot Spot Designation Application are listed as
?pending,?

95 To view the list of external agencies with access to CLEAP that CPD provided to OIG, see Appendix E.

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Department?s control over external agency access and its capacity to monitor the use
of gang information by external agencies.

For external agencies with access to gang?related data, the Department has no
agreements clearly delineating criteria for appropriate use of such data. Specific to
data in CLEAR, CRD has no agreements beyond the initial application, which only
provides broadly that the information be used for ?law enforcement purposes.?
Beyond examining audit trails of information access for excessive use, the
Department does not have any mechanisms in place to ensure that all external
agencies use gang?related data for a legitimate law enforcement purpose.

own directive General Order (0.0.) 09?0l?0l ?Access to Computerized Data,
Dissemination and Retention of Computerized Data? mandates that external
agencies with access to CRD databases must agree to be in compliance with 28 Code
of Federal Regulations (CER) Rart 23?a guideline for law enforcement agencies
operating federally funded multi?jurisdictional criminal intelligence systems.96 28 CPR
Part 23 dictates the ways in which these systems must be operated to protect privacy
rights and civil liberties relating to the collection, storage, and dissemination of
criminal intelligence information; this includes provisions such as regular review and
purging of data. According to 0.0. 09?01?01 violations ofthe regulations imposed by
28 CPR Part 23 are subject to monetary fines of $11000 per violation. Currently, the
application for external agencies to receive CLEAR access does not mandate
adherence to 28 CPR Part 23. In addition, the application does not require that
external agencies or users receive training ?in the proper use ofthe interface tool(s)
and issues involving 28 CPR compliance,? as required by CO. 09?0l?0l.

Taken together, these insufficient controls inhibit ability to hold external
agencies accountable for their use of gang?related data.

B. GANG INFORMATION PRACTICES LACK
PROCEDURAL FAIRNESS PROTECTIONS

The Department lacks procedural fairness protections, including processes to notify,
appeal, review, and purge relating to gang designations, that could reduce the
frequency and potential harms of inaccurate designations.

CRD provides no notifications to individuals regarding their gang designations. Even
if individuals become aware ofthe gang designation assigned to them by CRD, the
Department has no processes by which an individual may contest or appeal this
designation. In interviews with the Department about potential future changes in

 

96 According to Departmental interviews, CRD receives federal funding to ?increase information?sharing
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gang?related strategies, CRD members stated ?It is important for law
enforcement purposes that [gang?related] information is accurate, so the
Department wants people to challenge their [designation]? and ?we want people to
challenge their [gang ifa person has been included incorrectly
they should be removed, making the information more accurate and thus stronger.?

The Department has no process for regularly examining gang designations for their
continued applicability and retention. Further, the Department has no process for
purging gang designations, including those that were applied decades ago and may
no longer be valid. There have been 57 individuals classified as gang members for 2T
years based on Gang Arrest Cards. These individuals were first classified as gang
members in I997, the earliest year of analysis.

lack of procedural fairness protections in relation to gang information inhibits
the Department?s ability to maintain accurate information and potentially
undermines public confidence in the Department?s efforts to promote public safety.

C. GANG ARREST CARDS RAISE SIGNIFICANT DATA
QUALITY CONCERNS

Throughout review, Department members described gang?related data
as ?squishy? and characterized various sources as ?seldom used.? Regarding ISRs
specifically, Department members described gang?related data captured on these
forms as ?not legit,? containing ?too many discrepancies,? and ?unverified.? According
to the Department, many gang?related data sources ?started and then dropped off,?
were ?collapsed,? and include ?older data from a previous system added into a new
model.?

In the course of analysis of various CRD data sources relating to gangs, OIC
discovered a variety of data quality concerns. According to CRD, data in Gang Arrest
Cards?which are completed when an individual is arrested by CPD?contain the
most reliable information. This is because individuals are fingerprinted during the
arrest process and as such their identity is verified and cannot be confused with that
of anyone else?s. However, there are significant data quality concerns with respect to
Gang Arrest Cards, including:

0 90 records where individuals designated in the Gang Arrest Card had a birth
date prior to I901, making these individuals over II7 years old. Further, OIC
found 80 records where the individual?s age was listed as zero.

0 records with invalid Identification Record (IR) numbers, meaning that
the IR number field was blank, and/or an individual had multiple IR numbers
assigned to them.

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D.

CPD’S PRACTICES AND LACK OF TRANSPARENCY
REGARDING ITS GANG DESIGNATIONS STRAIN POLICECOMMUNITY RELATIONS

  


strain police?community relations and inhibit the Department?s ability to build public
trust.

During this review, community members reported that CPD is not transparent or
responsive regarding the ?gang data base? and described ?gang database? as a
?black box.? Community members repeatedly expressed uncertainty about the
criteria, use, structure, and purpose ofthe ?gang data base.? Community groups cited
challenges in receiving responses from the Department regarding such concerns.
This lack oftra nsparency about gang?related practices fosters
misunderstanding, speculation, and mistrust. Indeed, common reference to 
?gang data base? is itself a misnomer. As demonstrated, the Department?s collection
of gang information is not limited to a single database.

Community members who participated in the public forums and interviews reported
personal accounts in which individuals were misidentified by CPD as gang members,
experienced harassment and/or acts of discrimination by CPD as a result of gang
designations, and faced obstacles to immigration relief due to gang
designations. Community members described the ways in which these experiences
furthered the divide between themselves and the police. An individual who works in
violence prevention stated that they were incorrectly included in the data base
because oftheir work, and that the inclusion in the ?gang database? has had negative
consequences for their children who are not affiliated with gangs. An individual who
works as a victim advocate stated that the police pulled them over and were initially
friendly, but after seeing that the individual was listed as a gang member in 
though they are not a gang member?the police pointed their guns
at the individual. Another individual stated that CPD incorrectly designated them as a
gang member, and the individual was denied immigration relief and faced
deportation as a result.

One young person reported that at age ii, the young person and some friends were
stopped by the police and asked about their gang affiliation. Although the young
person stated that they were not a gang member, the police told them that ?because
you?re around gang members, you will be considered one as well.? The young person
stated that they felt at this point that ifthey were going to be labeled anyway, they
?mig ht as well actuallyjoin a gang.? An individual who expressed previous
involvement in gang activity, prior to serving over 30 years in prison and leaving the
gang, stated, discriminates based on past labels.? Other community members
asserted that the ?gang data base? served as an ?excuse for criminaliZing people in
certain neighborhoods? and a ?tool for racial profiling.?

It should be noted that many ofthe participants who attended the public forums
were generally suspicious of and/or opposed to ?gang data base.? OIC cites the

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examples above to provide readers with an understanding of some ofthe narratives
that exist in Chicago?s communities regarding gang information practices.
These examples do not necessarily represent the views of all community members
who reside in the neighborhoods where OIG attended public forums.



VI. RECOMMENDATIONS

ACTION ITEMS FOR THE CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT
A.

UTILITY AND ALIGNMENT WITH CPD’S VIOLENCE
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member engages in a course or pattern ofcriminal activity.?103 Further, in interviews
with OIC, Department members stated that due to the impermanence in the
landscape of ?gangs? currently gang designation information often becomes
inaccurate as soon as it is documented. Finally, OIC found that methods for
determining whether shooting incidents were gang?related rely on data sources with
demonstrated data quality and procedural concerns (such as Cang Arrest Cards) and
may misrepresent and overstate the frequency of shooting incidents that are caused
by gang conflicts. This overrepresentation may obscure a more nuanced and accurate
understanding of violence in Chicago, while also not providing compendious
information for law enforcement purposes with respect to violence. As such, CPD
must adapt to the fluidity and impermanence ofthe current landscape as part of its
violence reduction efforts.

To ensure that gang strategies are appropriately aligned with violence
reduction efforts in the city, CPD should:

i. Evaluate, in partnership with stakeholders,104 whether collecting,
maintaining, sharing, and using gang information best serves violence
reduction efforts in the city, including with consideration ofthe collateral
consequences ofthese practices. Avenues for partnership may include,
but are not limited to: conducting a formal and publicly reported
evaluation, holding public hearings, and participating in City Council

hearings.

2. Ensure policing resources are focused on violent actors instead of all
individuals designated as gang members.

3. Consider other mechanisms for preserving officer safety based on more

reliable data, such as flagging individuals with a documented history of
violence or weapons possession.

4. Utilize gang designations to identify at?risk individuals for the purpose of
offering appropriate social intervention services.
5. Formally evaluate whether the individuals and groups CPD tracks as

gangs meet the legal criteria ofcriminal gang members and criminal
gangs, respectively.

6. Formally evaluate whether the current methods of identifying and
tracking gang membership align with the current landscape ofgangs in
Chicago.

 


?04 Stakeholders include, but are not limited to, adult and youth community members, students, parents,
academics, community agencies, law enforcement, and other expert leaders.

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B. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURAL FAIRNESS PROTECTIONS

Variousjurisdictions have implemented a wide variety of reforms with respect to
gang?related data. For example, the California Department ofJustice mandated the
enactment of procedural fairness protections for the state?wide gang data base
?CalCangf?OS These protections include: notifications for individuals designated as
gang members, regular review and purging of outdated or inaccurate gang?related
data, opportunities for individuals to contest their designations, and the creation of an
Advisory Committee comprised of expert stakeholders.106 In Portland, Oregon, the
Police Bureau dismantled its gang database after public outcry over the
consequences ofthe data base, although gang?related information is still captured on
several Bureau forms.107 In Providence, Rhode Island, the City passed an ordinance
entitled ?Providence Community?Police Relations Act? mandating due process
protections for individuals designated as gang members and public reporting on
designations by the Providence Police Department, as well as codifying regulations
regarding the criteria the Department can utilize for determining gang
membership.108 In Greater London, England, the Information Commissioner?s Office
found that the Metropolitan Police?s gang database (?the Matrix?) breached data
protection rules and mandated protective reforms.?09

 

105 On January1, 2018, the California DOJ became responsible for the oversight of CalCang. Penal Code
Section 186.36 grants the California DOJ the statutory authority to collect and regulate CalCang data and
to report annually on the information included in this data. See State of California, Department ofJustice,
?Attorney Ceneral?s Annual Report on CalCang for 2017,? 2018, accessed February 4, 2019,


State of California, Penal Code, Section 186.36. 
outlinepdf.

?06 Advisory Committee members include: the Attorney General, or his or her designee; the President of
the California District Attorneys Association, or his or her desig nee; the President of the California Public
Defenders Association, or his or her desig nee; a representative of organizations that specialize in gang
violence intervention, appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules; a representative oforganizations
that provide immigration services, appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules; the President ofthe
California Gang Investigators Association, or his or her desig nee; a representative of community
organizations that specializes in civil or human rights, appointed by the Speaker ofthe Assembly; a
person who has personal experience with a shared gang data base as someone who is or was impacted
by gang labeling, appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly; the Chairperson of the California Gang
Node Advisory Committee, or his or her designee; and the President ofthe California Police Chiefs
Association, or his or her desig nee; the President of California State Sheriffs' Association, or his or her
designee.

107Josh Saul, ?In a First for the Nation, Portland Police End Gang List to Improve Relations with Black and
Latinos,? Newsweek Magazine, September 15, 2017, accessed February 1, 2019,

rebuild?communitv?665374html.

?08 City of Providence, Providence Community?Police Relations Act,? June 1, 2017, accessed
February 1, 2019, 
?09 Some of the reforms put forth by the Information Commissioner included: implement a retention
schedule that addresses how and when data subjects should be removed from the Matrix, and that the
personal data of those data subjects is not otherwise retained; conduct a full review ofall data sharing

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CO. ?Access to Computerized Data, Dissemination and Retention of
Computer Data? indicates that CRD already recognizes the importance of data
protections, including reviewing data for accuracy and deleting inaccurate and
outdated information. CO. specifically applies to members assigned or
detailed to the Bureau of Detectives or the Bureau of Organized Crime, vvhen
identifying an individual as an active criminal and seeking to enter the information
into criminal intelligence data bases. It states that the members must ensure the data
is current and accurate. Additionally, the Chief ofthe Bureau of Detectives and the
Chief ofthe Bureau of Organized Crime must ensure submissions into 
computerized information systems meet established criteria, conduct periodic audits
reviewing the validity of information, and authorize purging of records as appropriate.
Further, modifications to a record which ?correct errors or negate an individual's
be reported to any agency that received such erroneous
information.? The principles articulated in CO. could serve as a starting point
for addressing some of the concerns raised by stakeholders regarding gang
designations if CRD elects to continue collecting gang information.

OIC offers the following recommendations in keeping with the direction of current
regulatory reform efforts while remaining specific to the needs and challenges of
Chicago. CRD should:

CONTROLS
7. Formally inventory all gang?related data collection, reporting, and
visualization points, and the relationships between them.
8. Formally inventory all extant paper and electronic records containing
gang information.
9. Establish formal, clear, public purposes and goals for the collection of

gang information, and tailor training, access,110 policies, and technology
to align with these purposes and goals.

lO. Ensure all forms featuring gang?related data are listed on the Records
Retention Schedule, and that all forms featuring gang?related data have
a finalized retention timeframe.

 

relating to the Gangs Matrix across the Metropolitan Rolice Service (MRS) in order to evaluate what
sharing is occurring, the legal basis for the sharing, whether the sharing is necessary and justified, and
whether the sharing is properly regulated by formal written agreements approved by the MRS
Information Rights Unit; and implement compulsory purpose?specific training for all officers and staff
responsible for processing personal data on the Gangs Matrix. Information Commissioner?s Office, 
finds Metropolitan Rolice Service?s Gangs Matrix breached data protection laws,? November l6, 2018,
accessed February 1, 20l9, 


?0 See, for example, 28 CFR Rart 23: ?The project must promulgate rules and regulations based on good
cause for implementing its authority to screen, reject for employment, transfer, or remove personnel
authorized to have direct access to the system.? 

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ll. Establish formal written agreements with external agencies regarding
data quality, input and output controls, and appropriate use.m
a. Codify that compliance with 28 CPR Part 23 is included as a
requirement in agreements with external agencies.
b. Provide external agencies with training for 28 CPR Part 23
compliance, as well as appropriate usage of CPD data.
c. Ensure that CPD reports any gang?related records that are

appealed, modified, or purged to external agencies accessing
these records.

l2. Regularly conduct formal audits of external agency access and use
based on clearly defined metrics.HZ
l3. Consider implementing additional, formal protections and restrictions

for sharing gang?related data with external agencies including, but not
limited to, immigration enforcement agencies.
l4. Provide formal training and policies to all officers regarding gang?

related data, as well as regular, formal refresher trainings on gang?

related data, including updates with respect to the evolving nature of

gangs in Chicago.

a. Gang?related trainings should incorporate adult and youth
community members, academics, representatives from relevant
community agencies, law enforcement, and other expert

instructors.
l5. Codify formal processes for supervisory and/or expert?level review of
gang designations for accuracy.
l6. Formally require the inclusion and assessment of specified types of

evidence required to support proposed gang designations.?

 

See, for example, 28 CPR Part 23: project or authorized recipient shall disseminate criminal
intelligence information only where there is a need to know and a right to know the information in the
performance ofa law enforcement a project shall disseminate criminal intelligence information
only to law enforcement authorities who shall agree to follow procedures regarding information receipt,
maintenance, security, and dissemination which are consistent with these principles.?


?2 See, for example, 28 CPR Part 23: project maintaining criminal intelligence information shall ensure
that administrative, technical, and physical safeguards (including audit trails) are adopted to insure
against unauthorized access and against intentional or unintentional damage. A record indicating who
has been given information, the reason for release of the information, and the date of each dissemination
outside the project shall be kept. Information shall be labeled to indicate levels of sensitivity, levels of
confidence, and the identity ofsubmitting agencies and control officials.?


?3 See, for example, 28 CPR Part 23: ?In an interjurisdictional intelligence system, the project is responsible
for establishing the existence of reasonable suspicion of criminal activity either through examination of
supporting information submitted by a participating agency or by delegation ofthis responsibility to a
properly trained participating agency which is subject to routine inspection and audit procedures
established by the project.? 

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a. lfthe reason for the designation is ?self?admission,? require the
inclusion of supporting evidence such as video footage of the
interaction and/or a signed statement from the individual

designated.
l7. Formally update and publicly report clearly defined criteria for ?gang?
and ?gang activity.?
a. Ensure criteria are narrowly tailored to align with the
Department?s focus on criminal gangs.114
b. Being in a gang?designated area or around gang?designated

individuals should not, in and of itself, be considered suitable
criteria to designate an individual as a gang member.

c. Adopt a written policy indicating that determinations regarding
individual gang designations may not be based solely on an
individual?s race, gender, religion, ethnicity, culture,
socioeconomic status, or other protected classes.HS

l8. Conduct regular, formal reviews of gang designations to evaluate
continued accuracy ofthe designation.?6

a. Establish clear, formal, and public criteria for continued accuracy.

19. Develop and implement a formal means to regularly purge applicable
gang designations from all originating documents and visualization
tools.?7

a. If CPD retains a designation past the regular review period, new
evidence must be provided; an additional notification must also
be provided to the individual regarding the designation.

 

?4 See, for example, 28 CFR Part 23: project shall collect and maintain criminal intelligence information
concerning an individual only ifthere is reasonable suspicion that the individual is involved in criminal
conduct or activity and the information is relevant to that criminal conduct or activity.?


?5 See, for example, 28 CFR Part 23: project shall ma ke assurances that there will be no harassment or
interference with any lawful political activities as part of the intelligence operation,?


?6 See, for example, 28 CFR Part 23: ?All projects shall adopt procedures to assure that all information
which is retained by a project has relevancy and importance. Such procedures shall provide for the
periodic review of information and the destruction ofany information which is misleading, obsolete or
otherwise unreliable and shall require that any recipient agencies be advised of such changes which
involve errors or corrections. All information retained as a result ofthis review must reflect the name of
the reviewer, date of review and explanation of decision to retain. Information retained in the system
must be reviewed and validated for continuing compliance with system submission criteria before the
expiration of its retention period, which in no event shall be longer than five (5) years.?


?7 See, for example, 28 CPR Pa rt 23: ?information retained in the system must be reviewed and validated
for continuing compliance with system submission criteria.,,any information not validated within [the
given time] period must be purged from the system.? 

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PPOCEDU PAL FAI PNESS PPOTECTIONS

20.

2I.

22.

23.

24.

Formally require that every individual who receives a gang designation
from CPD is notified.

a. Notifications should be provided at no cost to the individual.

b. Notifications should be provided in the individual?s preferred
language.

Establish formal protections forjuveniles.

a. ?Self?admission? should not be considered sufficient evidence for

designating ajuvenile as a gang member unless a lawyer and/or a
juvenile advocate is present.
Establish formal, written policies mandating that conversations or
interviews with law enforcement which may result in the application of a
gang designation must be conducted in the individual?s preferred

language.

Establish a formal appeal process.

a. Develop and publicize formal, clear, achievable criteria for
individuals to appeal their gang designations.

b. Ensure that the appeals process is available at no cost to the
individual.

c. Ensure that every individual has timely access to the report(s) on

which they are designated as gang members, as well as the
supporting evidence for the designation.
d. Establish a third?party mechanism to make determinations
regarding appeals.
Ensure that every individual who has already been designated by CPD is
notified and may appeal their designation(s), in keeping with the
recommendations listed above.

C. POLICE LEC-ITIMACY AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Meaningful community input, transparency from the Department, and durable
partnerships will be required to address concerns expressed by community members
during OlC?s review regarding gang information practices and to ensure the
safety of Chicago communities. CPD should:

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

25.

Participate in a committee of stakeholders formed by the City to address

ongoing reforms (see recommendation 

a. Through a mechanism determined by this committee, the
Department should respond to the recommendations put forth
by the committee in a timely and comprehensive manner.

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26. Continue to build partnerships with community?based organizations to
foster collaborative solutions to violence.

TRANSPARENCY
27. Regularly report on collection, storage, sharing, and use ofgang
data, including:

a. a list of all forms and databases vvhere gang designations can be
collected, reported and/or vievved;

b. the number of individuals who are designated as gang members
disaggregated by, but not limited to, race, gender, age, location of
designation, reason for designation, number of convictions for
serious/violent crirne(s), and number of years designated as a
gang member;

c. the number of designations that have been reviewed, appealed
(including the outcomes ofthe appeals), purged, and retained;

d. an aggregation of law enforcement actions ta ken as a result of
gang designations; and

e. a list of all external agencies with access to gang

information.

ACTION ITEMS FOR THE OFFICE OF THE MAYOR AND CHICAGO
CITY COUNCIL

28. Establish a committee of stakeholders including adult and youth
community members, students, parents, academics, community
organizations, law enforcement, and other expert leaders to discuss
ongoing reforms.

a. This committee should have a formal role in shaping training,
criteria, and procedures relating to gang designations. The
committee should also regularly evaluate the utility and impacts
of gang designations and make recommendations to the
Department.

29. Consider legislation that would create and impose a legal mandate for
CRD to appropriately gather, maintain, sharing, and use gang?related
data.

30. Consider legislative amendments to the Welcoming City Ordinance that
would remove exceptions based on the individual being ?identified as a
known gang member either in a law enforcement agency's data base or
by his own admission.?

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VII. DEPARTMENT RESPONSE

In its response to this report, CPD agreed with findings and largely concurred
with many of OlC?s recommendations and partially concurred or disagreed with
others. CPD acknowledged that its gang information policies, practices, and
technology had impeded the Department?s ability to maintain updated and relevant
information. CPD proposed the development of a new system to collect and store
gang information, the Criminal Enterprise Database (CED). As proposed by the
Department, the CED will be a single, unified system that ensures the inclusion of
updated and vetted information, purging ofoutdated gang information, and a
process for members of the public to ascertain and appeal their designation as a
gang member or affiliate. CPD also indicated that the new system will incorporate
additional protections when sharing gang information with third parties. However, it
should be noted that these proposed controls and reforms do not apply to the gang
information currently maintained by the Department and that this unverified, often
outdated information will remain available to any officer or department that currently
has access to this information.

 

While the Department has signaled intentions to reform its gang?related technology
and information practices, response and proposed measures diverge from
OlC?s recommendations in several critical ways. The Department?s response indicates
that CPD will not engage with community stakeholders in the fashion that OIC
recommends. CPD states that it has already conducted an internal evaluation,
affirmed the utility of collecting gang information, and drafted policies for a new
system.

response also deviates from recommendations with the proposal of an
appeals process that involves several substantive barriers, including limited hours and
days on which appeals can be made, required appearance at police facilities, and no
access for designated individuals to the evidence which CPD used to determine their
gang status.

OIC also recommended additional protections forjuveniles in gang
identification processes. Twenty?five percent of individuals identified as gang
members in analysis were under the age of18 when first designated as a gang
member. In spite ofthis, response to this report indicates that the Department
has determined that existing protections and processes forjuveniles are sufficient.

Finally, the Department?s response provides no proposed timeline for
implementation ofthe CED. As part of its stated commitment to community
engagement, CPD should consider communicating to the public an estimated
timefra me for development and implementation.

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VIII. APPENDIX A: CPD BUREAUS AND DIVISIONS
INVOLVED IN GANG DESIGNATION, TRACKING, AND
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officials as well as CPD units and the Cook County Juvenile Probation to conduct
?interventions? regarding ?school?related gang violence,? including through social
media monitoring. CPD estimated that conduct approximately 20
interventions per month, and that the majority ofthese interventions occur at school,
a hospital, or home.

Bureau of Technical Services

The Bureau of Technical Services is involved in gang?related tracking. The Information
Services Division generates District Intelligence Bulletins, which contain district?
specific intelligence pertaining to gangs.122 The Instant Update Unit in the Records
Division reviews all rap sheets and identifies arrestees who are on parole, are on
probation, have pending felony charges, or are out on bond for misdemeanor charges
that have not been adjudicated, to ?com bat gang violence and aid in the prosecution
of violent gang members.?23 Public Safety Information Technology (PSIT) builds maps
and linking capabilities in CLEAP based on data from the Gang Audit.124

Bureau of Detectives

The Bureau of Detectives oversees investigations of selected felonies and selected
misdemeanors. Detectives interview victims, witnesses, and others during the course
of an investigation, as well as review data in CPD data bases, to determine
perpetrator(s) and motive(s). The detectives? work is also informed by the preliminary
information gathered in BOP Case Peports, along with any interviews conducted at
the scene and any/all other information the patrol officer includes. If Detectives
determine that a crime was gang?motivated based on the totality of circumstances
found during the investigation, this information can be captured in the CH PIS
Supplemental Peports.

Deployment Operations Center
The DOC is involved in gang?related designations and tracking. The DOC creates
?gang profiles? which include gang affiliation, arrests, associates, ISPs, known conflicts,

 




?22 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?General Order Gang Violence Reduction
Strategy,? accessed April 5, 2019, 


?23 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?General Order Gang Violence Reduction
Strategy,? accessed April 5, 2019, 


?24 City ofChicago, Chicago Police Department, ?General Order Cang Audits,? accessed April 5,
2OI9, 
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and possible retaliation information in the case of a shooting.?25 On a weekly basis, the
DOC Commander recommends areas to be designated as ?High Level Cang Conflict
Locations.?126 Finally, with respect to the Gang Audit, DOC confirms and manages
gang?related data. The Crime Prevention and Information Center (CPIC) is a section
in the DOC responsible for ?preparing and disseminating Gang Violence Peduction
Strategy informational packets on victims of murders or shootings.?27

 

?25 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?General Order C10?01:Gang Violence Reduction
Strategy,? accessed April 5,2019, 


?26 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Special Order Selection of Designated
Enforcement Areas,? accessed April 5,2019, 


?27 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Special Order 803?04?04: Crime Prevention and
Information Center accessed April 5,2019,

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IX. APPENDIX B: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
REGARDING POTENTIAL COLLATERAL
CONSEQUENCES OF CPD’S GANG DESIGNATIONS

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stop you ifyou make us.?132 In these sessions, CPD inform group members that the
next violent incident committed will result in ?swift, targeted enforcement?using any
legal means available.?133

GANG MISSIONS

In Gang Missions, CPD conducts ?aggressive patrol and violence suppression
missions? in areas designated as involving gang conflicts}:64

GANG INVESTIGATIONS

In Cang Investigations, officers in the Bureau ofOrganized Crime?often in
conjunction with federal agencies?conduct in?depth investigations of individuals
designated as gang?involved for the purpose of developing evidence to prosecute
these individuals.?35

GANG LOITEPING ENFORCEMENT



For areas designated as ?Hot Spots, High Level Gang Conflict Locations,? and ?Areas
Associated With a Heightened Level of Violence,? CPD may issue Gang Loitering
dispersal orders if two or more persons are loitering in the area and one of the people
is a ?known gang member.?136 These dispersal orders can require that the individual
not return to the specified area for eight to 12 hours;137 ifthe individual returns vvithin
?sig ht or hearing? ofthe area, individuals face imprisonment for not more than six
months, a fine between $100 and $500, or both. Subsequent violations ofdispersal
orders can result in additional penalties.?38

 

132 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?General Order C10?01:Cang Violence Reduction
Strategy,? accessed April 5, 2019, 


133 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?General Order C10?01:Gang Violence Reduction
Strategy,? accessed April 5,2019, 


134 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?General Order C10?01:Gang Violence Reduction
Strategy,? accessed April 5,2019, 


I35 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?General Order (301?02?05: Organization and Functions of
the Bureau of Organized Crime,? accessed April 5,2019,



?36 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Special Order 810?02: Gang and Narcotics?Related
Loitering,? accessed April 5,2019, 
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?37 The amount of time depends on the classification of the area?areas designated as Heightened Level
of Violence are 12?hour dispersal areas, In all other circumstances, the dispersal period is eight hours.

?38 A second or subsequent offense is punishable by a mandatory minimum sentence of no less than five
days. After a third or subsequent conviction vvithin a one?year period, a court will additionally issue an

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TARGETED VEHICLE EN EORCEMENT

Targeted Vehicle Enforcement aims to ?reduce gang violence, shootings, and drive?by
shootings? through vehicle?related missions.139 This can include impounding vehicles
for a variety of offenses, as well as ?seat belt missions, red light missions, school safety
zone missions, license plate reader enforcement, moving violation enforcement, and
the issuance of parking citations.?MO These offenses include an assault weapon or
narcotics in the vehicle, a revoked or suspended driver's license, playing music too
loudly, possession of spray paint by a minor in the vehicle, possession ofan altered
handicap permit, displaying a false temporary registration permit, soliciting a
prostitute, fireworks in the vehicle, fleeing a police vehicle, and other ordinances that
allow impounding a vehicle??

AREA GANG STRATEGY MEETINGS

During Area Gang Strategy Meetings, agencies within and outside of CPD
disseminate gang?related intelligence and develop strategies to identify and address
gang?related persons of interest believed to be involved in criminal activity.142
Agencies include BOP, BOD, BOC, DOC, federal agencies, Chicago High Intensity
Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), CCSAO, United States Attorney?s Office, IDOC, the Cook
County Adult Probation Department's Gang Intervention Unit, and surrounding
suburban police agencies.143

 

order requiring the person to refrain from ?gang loitering within sight and sound ofthe location? ofthe
latest dispersal order for 30 days, Ifan officer sees the individual engaged in gang loitering in violation of
the court order, the officer can immediately place the individual under arrest without requiring the
officer to provide a dispersal vvarning.

?39 City ofChicago, Chicago Police Department, ?General Order Gang Violence Reduction
Strategy,? Accessed April 8, 20l9, 


?40 City ofChicago, Chicago Police Department, ?General Order Gang Violence Reduction
Strategy,? Accessed April 8, 20l9, 


I41 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?General Order Gang Violence Reduction
Strategy,? Accessed April 8, 20l9, 


I42 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Special Order Area Gang Strategy Meeting,?
Accessed April 8, 2019, 


I43 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Special Order Area Gang Strategy Meeting,?
Accessed April 8, 2019, 


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PAROLE COMPLIANCE CHECKS

In Parole Compliance Checks, CPD officers support IDOC in parolee compliance
checks?defined as home visits?and conduct surveillance on ?gang?involved
parolees and recent parolees that are high?ranking gang members.?144

GANG INTERVENTION PROBATION PROGRAM145

The Gang Intervention Probation Program (CIPP) is implemented in conjunction with
the CCSAO and the Cook County Adult Probation Department?s Gang Intervention
Unit, with the stated goal of ?deterring individuals placed in the program from
additional criminal gang activity by enforcing the conditions of their probation.?I46

CIPP imposes obligations and sanctions upon those enrolled including: mandatory
curfew, residential conditions, prohibition on association with known gang members,
and a ban on engaging in gang activity.147 If an individual violates any ofthese
conditions, the individual will be sent to Central Bond Court.148 Ifthe individual violates
the conditions with additional charges, they are no longer eligible for bond.149

TARGETED REPEAT OFFENDER APPREHENSION AND PROSECUTION PROGRAM150

The Targeted Pepeat OffenderApprehension and Prosecution Program (TPAP) is a
joint initiative prioritizing ?enhanced prosecution to detain, convict, and
incarcerate? repeat offenders considered to be involved in violence and/or narcotics
distribution, and uses gang affiliation and gang role to determine program
inclusion.l5l

 

?44 City ofChicago, Chicago Police Department, ?General Order Gang Violence Reduction
Strategy,? Accessed April 8, 20i9, 


I45 According to Department members and external agencies during interviews, CIPP is not currently
active and/or is seldom used. However, this program is still listed in Department directives.

?46 City ofChicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Special Order 810?031(3ang Intervention Probation
Program,? Accessed April 8, 20i9, 


?47 City ofChicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Special Order Cang Intervention Probation
Program,? Accessed April 8, 20i9, 


?48 City ofChicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Special Order Gang Intervention Probation
Program,? Accessed April 8, 20i9, 


?49 City ofChicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Special Order 810?031(3ang Intervention Probation
Program,? Accessed April 8, 20i9, 


I50 According to Department members and external agencies during interviews, TPAP is not currently
active and/or is seldom used However, this program is still listed in Department directives.

15? City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Special Order Targeted Repeat?Offender
Apprehension and Prosecution (T.P.A.P.) Program,? Accessed April 8, 2019,

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TRAR?enrolled individuals are subject to possible enhanced prosecution pending the
review ofthe CCSAO which can include: no deals, no ?nolle prosequi? for small or petty
cases, monitoring sources of bail, and prosecuting several small cases together to
enhance the penalty.

CRIMINALJUSTICE

Cang membership, gang designation in a database, or gang affiliation may have an
effect on bail, bond, sentencing, sanctions, probation, prison, and parole in Illinois. The
magnitude of any effect will vary based on the discretion of prosecutors in
introducing gang related evidence, as well as the weight Courts give to any evidence
presented. All gang?related information will need to satisfy the applicable
admissibility standards, depending on the phase ofthe criminal proceeding, before it
is accepted into evidence.

BAILAND BOND

According to state statute, gang membership alone is not a factor in determining
bail.152 Courts will examine the nature and circumstances ofthe alleged criminal
conduct, including any relation it may have to an organized gang, to determine
eligibility for bail and/or the amount of bond due.l5:6 Evidence ofgang membership or
affiliation is only admissible at bail/bond hearings if it is relevant and reliable. Relevant
gang?related evidence includes evidence that the alleged criminal conduct was
related to or done in furtherance of criminal gang activity or was motivated by the
defendant's membership in or allegiance to an organized gang.?54 Reliable gang?
related evidence includes evidence that shows indicia of reliability or trustworthiness
but may not be admissible at a trial based on the rules of evidence. Relevant and
reliable gang?related evidence may include designation as a gang member by law
enforcement, and this designation can result in higher bond or denial of bail.?55

According to CO. lO?Ol, individuals designated as ?verified gang members and
charged with jailable offenses? are not eligible for Individual Bonds (l?Bonds) 
personal recognizance bonds that do not require cash payment? potentially
requiring the individual to remain in custody pending an appearance in bond court.?56
Criteria for establishing that the individual is a ?verified gang member? include

 

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?56 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?General Order Gang Violence Reduction
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?identification ofthe individual as a member of a specific street gang through any
database or information contained in the CLEAR system.?

SENTENCING

Gang?related evidence may impact a criminal defendant?s sentence through the
imposition ofa mandatory, minimum sentence or the introduction of aggravating
factors.?57 Additionally, Courts may impose certain gang?related conditions to a
sentence of probation or conditional discharge.?58 Potential evidence at sentencing
could include information from tracking and designation of individuals or areas
as gang related.

Per the Illinois Unified Code of Corrections, Courts are required to impose a
mandatory, minimum sentence of imprisonment for certain classes of offenses.159
Included in the list of eligible offense are forcible felonies, ifthe offense was related to
the activities of an organized gang, and unlawful possession of a firearm by a
streetgang member when the firearm was loaded or contained firearm
ammunition.160 Courts may also consider aggravating factors?facts or circumstances
that increase the severity or culpability of a crime?vvhen deciding to impose a period
of imprisonment or a more severe sentence, according to the Illinois Unified Code of
Corrections. One such aggravating factor Courts can consider is ifthe individual
committed an offense related to the activities of an ?organized gang.?162

PROBATION

Certain conditions may be imposed upon a defendant who receives a sentence of
probation or conditional discharge. Ifa defendant receives a sentence of probation or
conditional discharge for an offense related to or in furtherance ofthe criminal
activities of an organized gang and was motivated by the offender?s membership or
allegiance to an organized gang, Courts will require the defendant to complete
community service hours.163 The number of hours is discretionarily determined by the

 

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730 ILCS (2) (Y)
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160 730 ILCS (2) (J)

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Court and may range between 30 and 120 hours.164 As an additional condition of
probation, Courts may order a defendant to refrain from having any contact, directly
or indirectly, with certain specified persons or types of persons, including but not
limited to members of street gangs.165

SANCTIONS

The ?Streetgang Fine? sanction may be imposed upon individuals in relation to
gangs?designation by CPD may be proffered as evidence in establishing gang
membership and/or incidents as gang?related.?66 In addition to any other penalty
imposed, individuals convicted of a crime who were, at the time ofthe crime a
streetgang member,?67 receive a fine of The funds collected from this fine are
given to the ?State Police Streetgang?Pelated Crime Fund? in the Illinois treasury.?68

PRISON

IDOC records and tracks gang designations and activity for individuals incarcerated
through commitment to release. After reviewing relevant laws and policies, it is
unclear if IDOC utilizes gang data in its recording and tracking, although CPD
does share gang?related information with IDOC and vice versa. Individuals
incarcerated and designated as gang members are not eligible for certain pre?release
programs, such as the Prisoner Entrepreneur Education Program.?69

PAROLE

Once an individual is released on parole, certain conditions will apply. Among the
many conditions, the parolee will not associate with persons who are members of an
organized gang.17o Additionally, individuals on either probation or parole can be legally
mandated to attend Call?In Sessions, under Focused Deterrence strategy)?

JUVENILES

As with adults, information related to gang membership could impactjuveniles
within the criminaljustice system. Instead of a bond hearing,juveniles charged in
juvenile court will appear before the Court for a formal reading ofcriminal charges

 

I64 730 ILCS 

165 730 iLcs 

I66 According to CPD and external agencies during interviews, the Streetgang Fine is rarely applied.
However, this fine is still listed in law.

?67 As defined in section IO ofthe Illinois Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act.

168 730 iLcs 

I69 This section is set to be repealed on August 24, 2022.

170 730 iLcs 

I71 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?General Order Gang Violence Reduction
Strategy,? accessed April 9, 2019, 


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and a ?shelter?care hearing??72 During shelter?care hearings, a judge determines
whether thejuvenile will be held in a facility While awaiting trial or released to their
guardians?and if released, whether or not there are restrictions placed upon the
release.? This determination is based on the Court?s assessment ofwhether it is a
matter of immediate and urgent necessity for the protection ofthe minor, another
person, or their property to detain thejuvenile.174 Designation as a known gang
member by CPD may be offered as evidence in a shelter?care hearing for the Court to
determine whether thejuvenile will be detained or released with restrictions.

Sentencing for ajuvenile designated as a gang member could include an order that
thejuvenile undergo medical treatment to remove gang?related tattoos.?75 lfa
juvenile is sentenced to the Department ofJuvenile Justice, once thejuvenile is
eligible for parole, called ?aftercare,? certain restrictions will be placed on thejuvenile.
One of those restrictions requires that thejuvenile does not associate with persons
who are ?members of organized gangs.?76

 

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73 705 iLcs 405/5501.

74 705 ILCS 405/5501.

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X. APPENDIX C: GANG INFORMATION SYSTEMS
DIAGRAM PROVIDED BY CPD

In response to OlC?s request for a diagram depicting relationships between systems
in which gang?related data exist, CPD provided Figure 13 below.177 According to
interviews with CPD, this diagram does not include every source of gang information
in systems and in systems maintained by external agencies that CPD can
access. Due to lack of entity relationship diagrams and data flow diagrams, OIC
was unable to validate the depiction of relationships between these systems. Further,
due to lack of a complete list of all the various places gang information could
be recorded, reported, and visualized, OIC was unable to validate the accuracy and
completeness of the diagram components.

 

 

?77 In interviews CPD members stated that they used the term ?affiliation? synonymously with
?membership? in this diagram, and that CPD collects gang membership information rather than
affiliation information,

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EIGURE I3: CRD GANG INFORMATION SYSTEMS DIAGRAM

Gang Affiliation Data Systems at Chicago Police Department

 

 

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XI. APPENDIX D: DATA COLLECTION, REPORTING, AND
VISUALIZATION POINTS

The following represent points where gang?related information about individuals and
areas can be collected, within the past ten years.

 

Gang Arrest Cards

Gang Audit Questionnaire

Investigative Stop Reports (ISRs)

Contact Cards

Information Reports

Hot Spot Designations

Major Incident Notifications

Criminal History Records Information System (CHRIS) Supplemental
Repo?s

m?mwewwe

The following represent points where gang?related data that has already been
collected can be reported, within the past ten years.

9. District Intelligence Bulletins (DIBs)
lO. Daily Bulletin
ll. Officer Safety Alerts

The following represent points where gang?related information about individuals and
areas can be displayed and/or queried, within the past ten years.

l2. Caboodle

l3. Cang Listing Report

l4. Gang Profile Search

l5. Gang Members Search

l6. LinkAnalysis

l7. Strategic Subject List (SSL) Dash boardl78

l8. Law Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS)

 

I78 As ofJanuary 9, 2019, the Strategic Subject List (SSL) Dashboard has been replaced by the Subject
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DATA COLLECTION

The following represent points where gang?related information about individuals and
areas can be captured, within the past ten years.

1. Gang Arrest Cards

Department members may complete Cang Arrest Cards during arrests, when the
arrestee?s membership in a criminal street gang is ?substantiated or self?admitted.?179

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2. Gang Audit Questionnaire180

The Gang Audit is conducted periodically in each district.?81 During the Audit,
Department members from several units complete a form delineating the following
within the district: gang names, gang faction names, territorial borders, faction size,
documented criminal activity, rivals and active conflicts, alliances and active alliances,
organizational level, violence level, and the most active or influential members of each
faction.?82 The results ofthe Cang Audit can be visualized in Ca boodle.?83

 

?79 City ofChicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Special Order 810?02?01: Criminal Street Cang Arrest
Information,? Accessed April 8,2019, 
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?80 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Gang Audit Questionnaire,? Accessed April 8,2019,


?81 City ofChicago, Chicago Police Department, ?General Order Cang Audits,? Accessed April 8,
2019, 
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?82 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Cang Audit Questionnaire,? Accessed April 8,2019,


?83 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?General Order C10?01?01:Cang Audits,? Accessed April 8,
2019, 
b583fdc4cd349e84pdf?hl=true

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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FIGURE 15: GANG AUDIT QUESTION NAIRE184

 

GANG AUDIT QUESTIONNAIRE
Deployment Dperations CentertChicago Police Department

APRILII, 2OI9

 

The Gang Factions for the Distn'ct as noted in the Gang Faction module of Caboodle must be reviewed. Use

this form to add. delete or change information and circle the appropriate action on the right.

It a Gang Faction is being

added. include all the applicable intom'lation as shown below. Matte extra copies of the questionnaire it necessary and
indicate page number as appropriate on bottom. Email the completed questionnaires to gangaudit@chicag opolice_org.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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GANG AUDIT QUESTIONNAIRE

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3. Investigatory Stop Reports (lSRs)

Investigatory Stop Reports are completed when a Department member temporarily
detains and questions a person in the vicinity where the person was stopped based
on ?Reasonable Articulable Suspicion that the person is committing, is about to
commit, or has committed a criminal offense.?185 On the ISR, officers can document an
individual?s gang affiliation, known ?hangouts? for the gang, and types of criminal
activities attributed to that gang.?86 According to the ISR form, ?gang/narcotics?related
enforcement? can be a factor that leads to the investigatory stop.?87

Department members also complete ISRs during Cang Loitering Dispersals, when a
Department member observes two or more individuals loitering in an area
designated as a Hot Spot or a High?Level Cang Conflict Location and the member
determines that a ?criminal street gang member is present? and ?the persons are
engaged in gang loitering.?188

SECTIONS ON THE ISR EORIVI
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ENFORCEMENT El YES
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ENFORCEMENT ACTION ARREST DPERSONAL SERVICE CITATION (CIT. #1
OTHER
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GANG INFORMATION SECTION THIS SHADED SECTION ONLY IF INCIDENTISUBJECT HAs GANG 
GANGIFACTION GANG KNOWN 

 

 

TYPES OF GANG CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES (Describe in Investigatory Stop Narrative on Side 2)
El GANG LOOKOUT SECURITY INTIMIDATION SUSPECT NARCOTIC ACTIVITY OTHER (DescribBi)
IWHAT WERE THE FACTORS THAT LED TO THE 

El REASONABLE ARTICULABLE SUSPICION {Check all that apply. All checked items must be described in the Investigatory Stop Narrative on SideZl PROBABLE CAUSE
ACTIONS INDICATIVE OF ENGAGING FITS DESCRIPTION FROM FLASH MESSAGE El GANGINARCOTIC

 

 

 

 

{Explain in the
El OFFENDER ACTIONS INDICATIVE OF VICTIM OR LOCATION RELATED ENFORCEMENT lnvestlgatory Stop
AS DESCRIBED BY VICTIM OR WITN E53 PROXIMITY TO THE REPORTED CRIME LOCATION OTHER ?arrat've 0? S'de 2}

 

 

 

?85 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Special Order Investigatory Stop System,?
Accessed April 8, 2019, 


?86 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Investigatory Stop Report,? Accessed April 8, 2019,


?87 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Investigatory Stop Report,? Accessed April 8, 2019,


?88 City ofChicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Special Order Ca ng and Narcotics?Related

Enforcement,? Accessed April 8, 2019, 


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EIGURE l7: SEARCH TOOL FOR INEORIVIATION CARTURED
ON ISRs

 

 

 

 

 

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4. Contact Cards

Contact Cards are used to document Investigatory Stops as well as enforcement of
the Gang and Narcotics?Related Loitering Ordinances.?89 Contact Cards contain
information about the individual stopped and/or dispersed, including, if applicable,
gang membership, tattoos, gang hangouts, and gang activities. According to
Department directives, Contact Cards are no longer in use?ISRs are now used to
document stops and loitering enforcement.

 

?89 Prior to January 7, 2015, Contact Cards were used to document ?Routine Citizen Encounters? and
Investigatory Stops

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FIGURE T8: RARER CONTACT CARD, ERONTSIDE

 

 

 

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FIGURE T9: RARER CONTACT CARD, BACKSIDE

 

 

 

 

 

 

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FIGURE 20: ELECTRONIC CONTACT CARD SEARCH RAGE

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5. Information Reportsl90

Information Reports bring information on various police concerns, including gang?
related information, to the attention of CPD. Information Reports can contain the
following information about individuals: ?names, aliases, nicknames, and physical
descriptions; addresses of residence, business, and locations frequented; description
of criminal or suspicious activities, incidents, etc., in which the person is engaged;
detailed data on vehicles, especially licensing information state and city license
information) and the vehicle identification number; information on associates
engaged in the same or other criminal activity; and Records Division (RD) numbers, of
any known incidents to which the Information Report may be connected.?

FIGURE 21: INFORMATION RERORT CREATION RAGE WITH CATEGORIES

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?90 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Special Order 80443?08: Information Report System,?
Accessed April 8, 20I9, 
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FIGURE 22: INFORMATION RERORT GANG COMPONENTS

 

Clothing Description
Gang BLACK DISCIPLES 
Gang Faction BLACK GATE 

 

 

 

nlisted Gang Name

 

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6. Hot Spot Designation

CPD District Commanders complete Hot Spot Designation applications for areas
within their district which they believe require special enforcement attention?these
reasons can be a result of concerns regarding gang The application can
include observations such as ?gang graffiti? and ?flashing gang signs.?192

Heightened Level of Violence Areas are designated when there is ?reliable
information from sources? that a ?special?enforcement area? is experiencing or is
about to experience increased violence?as an example, directive cites
?increased violence may be due to a gang conflict/?93 Heightened Level of Violence
Areas are then designated ?12?hour dispersal areas,? wherein a person dispersed from
the area may not return for 12 hours.194

The Commander of DOC recommends High Level Gang Conflict Locations to
the Superintendent on a weekly basis. The Superintendent or their desig nee then
communicates these locations to the Chief of the BOP, the Chief ofthe Office of
Crime Control Strategies, and the Commander ofthe DOC, for ?dissemination and
enforcement by svvorn members.?195 High Level Gang Conflict Locations are

 

19? City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Special Order Selection of Designated
Enforcement Areas,? Accessed April 8,2019, 


?92 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ??Hot Spot? Designation Application,? Accessed April 8,
2019, 

?93 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Special Order Selection of Designated
Enforcement Areas,? Accessed April 8,2019, 


?94 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Special Order Selection of Designated
Enforcement Areas,? Accessed April 8,2019, 


?95 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Special Order Selection of Designated
Enforcement Areas,? Accessed April 8, 2019, 


 

 

 

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automatically designated as enforcement areas for Cang and/or Narcotics?Related
Loitering dispersals.196 These locations are also automatically designated areas
associated with a Heightened Level of Violence and therefore a l2?hour?dispersal
designation, commencing on Fridays at 5:00pm and continuing through Sundays at
llvapm.?97

FIGURE 23: HOT SPOT DESIGNATION APPLICATION EXCEPPT

 

 

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I96 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Special Order Selection of Designated
Enforcement Areas,? Accessed April 8, 2019, 


?97 City ofChicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Special Order Selection of Designated
Enforcement Areas,? Accessed April 8, 2019, 


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7. Major Incident Notifications

Within CLEAR system, the Major Incident Notification application contains
short descriptions of major incidents, including those considered gang?related?98

8. Criminal History Records Information System (CHRIS) Supplemental
Repoms

Detectives complete Supplemental Reports throughout the course of an
investigation. Supplemental Reports provide updates regarding the investigation,
and can include information such as additional interviews completed, additional
evidence collected, and case progress in court; Supplemental Reports can also be
used to designate a gang?relation ofthe incident, victim, or perpetrator.

 

?98 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?General Order Gang Violence Reduction
Strategy,? Accessed April 8, 2OI9, 


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FIGURE 24: CHRIS

 

 

RERORTS INCLUDING DATA

The following represent reports generated with gang?related data about individuals
and areas, within the past lO years.

9. District Intelligence Bulletins (DIBs)

DIBs, generated by the Information Services Division, include information specific to
each district regarding gang intelligence.199

 

I99 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Special Order Information Report System,?
Accessed April 8, 20I9, 
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FIGURE 25: DIBS HOMEPAGE

 

Welcome to the DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE Select your district of deploymem.

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FIGURE 26: DIBS AREA INFORMATION

District Intelligence Bulletin

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FIGURE 27: DIBs IN DISTRICT, WANTED INDIVIDUALS

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Officer Safety Alerts

The DOC issues Officer Safety Alerts to notify law enforcement personnel of potential
threats. The Officer Safety Alert provides descriptions of offenders, vehicles, threats
and/or vveapons vva nted, and lists subjects wanted for probable cause arrests and
active court vvarrants. Officer Safety Alerts also identify gang conflicts, gang funerals,
and/or persons of interest.

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FIGURE 28: INFORMATION BULLETIN SEARCH

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ll. Daily Bulletin

The Daily Bulletin is used to disseminate information, from certain sections and
divisions of the Department, about wanted or missing persons and stolen property,
and is available via Intranet homepage.200 Department members submitting
information for inclusion in the Daily Bulletin can include information about an
individual?s gang affiliation, along with name, address, sex, race, tattoos, and pictures,
among other data??

DATA VISUALIZATION ROINTS
The following represent points where gang?related information about individuals and
areas can be displayed and/or queried, within the past lO years.

l2. Ca boodle

Caboodle displays the results ofthe Cang Audit for each District including gang
boundaries and factions, gang members, and gang rivals and alliances, as well as
other data.202

 

200 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?General Order Gang Violence Reduction
Strategy,? Accessed April 8, 20l9, 


20? City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?Material Submitted for use in the Daily Bulletin,?
Accessed April 8, 2019, 

202 City of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, ?General Order Gang Audits,? Accessed April 8,
20l9, 
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l3. Gang Listing Report

 

The Gang Listing Report is a query page used to generate a ?report of all Gang Arrest
Cards citywide entered on a Contact Card or a Gang Arrest Card application.?

l4. Gang Profile Search

The Gang Profile Search is a query page which describes the characteristics of a gang
or gang faction and enables Department members to View a profile summary about
a gang.203 Gang Profiles are generated by DOC using information collected from the

Gang Audit.204

 

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Gang Members Search is a query page of gang membership including the

individual?s arrest histories and affiliations with other individuals with whom they have
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l6. Link Analysis

Link Analysis is a visualization tool that allows Department members to search for
individuals and their related crimes and associates based on levels of connection. Link
Analysis connects the associates of shooting victims, as well as the associates of their
associates. These connections, along with ballistic evidence, are linked to other

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T7. Strategic Subject List (SSL) Dashboard

The SSL Dashboard displays the SSL scores of individuals, as well as aggregated in?
depth information about each individual listed, drawn from a number of
Departmental data sources. Among other tabs of information, the SSL Dashboard
includes a Gang Tab and a Violence Reduction Strategy Profile Tab. The Gang Tab
provides detailed information regarding gang membership from records in the Gang
Audit and Gang Arrest Card databases, as well as other sources. The Violence
Reduction Strategy Profile Tab contains demographic and identification information,
gang affiliation, investigative alerts, arrest history, l<novvn associates, ISRs, traffic
convictions, interventions, Administrative Notice of Ordinance Violation citations, and
the DOC Analyst's notes. As ofJanuary 9, 2019, the SSL Dashboard has been replaced
by the Subject Assessment and Information Dashboard (SAID).

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LEADS contains records of individuals identified as gang members by ISP, as well as
by law enforcement and criminaljustice agencies throughout Illinois.

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XII. APPENDIX E: LIST OF EXTERNAL AGENCIES WITH
ACCESS PROVIDED BY CPD

 

AGENCIES OUTSIDE OF ILLINOIS
COOK COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT
ILLINOIS LAW ENFORCEMENT

OFFICE

FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT

ILLINOIS AGENCIES OUTSIDE OF COOK COUNTY
ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS

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ADAM COUNTY SHERIEE OEEICE
ADAMS COUNTY PROBATION DEPARTMENT
ADDISON POLICE DEPARTMENT
ALCOHOL TOBACCO AND FIREARMS
ALGONQUIN POLICE DEPT.

ALSIP

AM LEGAL SERVICES

AMES POLICE DEPARTMENT
AMTRAK R.R. POLICE DEPT.
ANTIOCH POLICE DEPARTMENT
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS

ATE, NW INDIANA

AURORA POLICE DEPARTMENT
BANNOCKBURN

BARRINGTON

BARRINGTON HILLS

BARTLETT

BARTONVILLE POLICE DEPT.
BATAVIA POLICE DEPARTMENT
BEARDSTOWN POLICE DEPARTMENT
BEDEORD PARK

BEECHER POLICE DEPT.
BELLWOOD

BELT RAILWAY

BENSENVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT
BERKELEY

BERWYN

BLOOMINGDALE POLICE DEPARTMENT
BLOOMINGTON POLICE DEPARTMENT
BLUE ISLAND

BNSE RAILWAY

BOLINGBROOK POLICE DEPT.
BOONE COUNTY SHERIEE

BRADLEY POLICE DEPARTMENT
BRIDGEVIEW

BROADVIEW

BROOKEIELD

BUEEALO GROVE

BURBANK

BUREAU COUNTY SHERIEE
BURNHAM

BURR RIDGE

BYRON POLICE DEPT.

 



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CAHOKIA POLICE DEPT.

CALUMET CITY

CALUMET MEMORIAL PARK
CALUMET PARK

CAROL STREAM POLICE DEPARTMENT
CARPENTERSVILLE POLICE DEPT.
CARROLL COUNTY SHERIFF

CARY POLICE DEPT.

CDN PACIFIC RAILWAY POLICE SRV
CEDAR LAKE POLICE DEPT.

CEDAR RAPIDS POLICE DEPT.
CENCOM E9TT

CENTRAL MGMT SERVICES
CHAMPAIGN COUNTY SA
CHAMPAIGN COUNTY SHERIFF
CHAMPAIGN POLICE DEPT.
CHANNAHON POLICE DEPT.
CHARLESTON POLICE DEPARTMENT
CH ESTERTON POLICE DEPARTMENT
CHGO DEPT. OF AVIATION COM CNTR
CHICAGO AVIATION POLICE

CHICAGO FIRE DEPT. 

CHICAGO HEIGHTS

CHICAGO HEIGHTS PARK DISTRICT
CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY OFFICE OF INSP
GENERAL

CHICAGO OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
CHICAGO RIDGE

CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY

CICERO

CLARENDON HILLS POLICE DEPARTMENT
COAL CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT
COLES COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE
COLLEGE OF DUPAGE POLICE DEPT
COLLEGE OF LAKE COUNTY POLICE
DEPARTMENT

COOK COUNTYADULT PROB

COOK COUNTYJUVENILE PROBATION
COOK COUNTY SHERIFF

COOK COUNTY SOCIAL SERVICE
COOK COUNTY STATE ATTORN EY
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CREST HILL POLICE DEPT.
CRESTWOOD

CRETE POLICE DEPARTMENT
CROWN POINT POLICE DEPT
LAKE POLICE DEPT.

CSX RAILROAD POLICE

CTA OFFICE OF INSPECTOR CEN.
CTA SAFETY AND SECURITY

D.E.A.

DANE COUNTY DISTRICTATTORNEY
DANE COUNTY SHERIFF

DANVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT
DARIEN POLICE DEPARTMENT

DE POLICE DEPT

DECATUR POLICE DEPT.
DEERFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT
DEKALB COUNTY COURT SERVICES
DEKALB COUNTY SHERIFF
DEKALB POLICE DEPARTMENT
DEPARTMENT OF LAW

DES PLAINES

DIXMOOR

DIXON POLICE DEPT.

DOLTON

DOWNERS CROVE P.D.

DU PACE COUNTY ADULT PROBATION
DUBUOUE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE


DUPACE COUNTY SHERIFF OFF.
DU PACE COUNTY STATES ATTY.
DWICHT POLICE DEPT.

DYER POLICE DEPT. INDIANA
EAST CHICACO POLICE DEPT.

EAST DUNDEE POLICE DEPT.

EAST HAZEL CREST

EAST MOLINE POLICE DEPT.

EAST PEORIA POLICE DEPT.

DISPATCH

EDWARDSVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT
EFFINCHAM COUNTY SHERIFF OFF.
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ELKHAPT CO. PPOSECUTOP
ELIVIHUPST POLICE DEPARTMENT
ELIVIWOOD PAPK

EVANSTON

EVANSVILLE POLICE DEPAPTIVIENT
EVEPGPEEN PAPK

FB.I.

FBI IVIEPPILLVILLE PA

FBI POCKFOPD

FBI CJIS

FBI GANG INTELLIGENCE CENTEP
FBI SPPINGFIELD DIV.

BU PG POLICE DEPARTMENT
FLOSSIVIOOP

FOPD COUNTY SHEPIFF

FOPEST PAPK

FOPEST PPESEPVE

FOPESTVIEW

FOX LAKE POLICE DEPAPTIVIENT
FOX VALLEY PAPK DIST. PD

FPAN KFOPT POLICE DEPARTMENT
FPANKLIN PAPK

FPEEPOPT POLICE DEPT.

FT. WAYNE INDIANA POLICE DEPT.
FULTON COUNTY OFFICE
GALESBUPG POLICE DEPT.

GAPY PAPOLE OFFICE INDIANA
GAPY POLICE DEPARTMENT
GENESEO POLICE DEPT.

GENEVA POLICE DEPT.

GIBSON CITY POLICE DEPT

GLEN ELLYN POLICE DEPAPTIVIENT
GLENCOE

GLENDALE HEIGHTS POLICE DEPT
GLENVIEW

GLENWOOD

GOLF

GOVEPNOPS STATE UNIV. POLICE
GPAYSLAKE POLICE DEPAPTIVIENT
GPIFFITH POLICE DEPT.

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CODE NAME STATUS
IAOC ILLINOIS DEPT OF HEALTHCARE AND 
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CABS ILLINOIS DEPT. OF REVENUE 
ILL ILLINOIS SECRETARV OF STATE 
CABS ILLINOIS STATE POLICE 
IAOC ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITV PD 
CABS INDIAN HEAD PARK 
AOILL INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF CHILD SERVICES 
(DCS)
AOILL INDIANA DEPT. OF CORRECTION 
AOILL INDIANA CAMINC COMMISSION 
CABS INDIANA HARBOR BELT RAILROAD PD 
AOILL INDIANA STATE POLICE 
AOILL INDIANAPOLIS METRO POLCE DEPT 
AOILL INDIANAPOLIS POLICE DEPT 
ILL INSPECTOR CEN. OF STATE 
FED INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE 
CABS INVERNESS 
IAOC ISLAND LAKE POLICE DEPT. 
IAOC ITASCA POLICE DEPARTMENT 
AOILL JASPER COUNTV SHERIFF INDIANA 
IAOC JASPER COUNTV SHERIFF OFFICE 
IAOC JO DAVIESS COUNTV SHERIFF 
IAOC JOHNSBURC POLICE DEPT 
IAOC JOLIETJUNIOR COLLECE PD 
IAOC JOLIET POLICE DEPARTMENT 
CABS JUSTICE 
IAOC KANAKAKEE MEC 
IAOC KANE COUNTV COURT SERVICES 
IAOC KANE OFFICE 
IAOC KAN KAKEE COUNTV PROBATION 
IAOC KANKAKEE COUNTV SHERIFF OFFICE 
IAOC KAN KAKEE COUNTV STATES ATTORN EV 
IAOC KAN KAKEE POLICE DEPARTMENT 
IAOC KENCOM COUNTV DISPATCH 
IAOC KENDALL COUNTV 
SERVICES
IAOC KENDALL COUNTV SHERIFF 
CABS KENILVVORTH 
AOILL KENOSHA COUNTV SHERIFF DEPT. 
AOILL KENOSHA POLICE DEPARTMENT 
IAOC KILDEER POLICE DEPARTMENT 
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LA RORTE ROLICE DEPARTMENT
LAFAYETTE ROLICE DERT.
LAORANCE

LAORANOE RARK

LAKE BLUFF ROLICE DERT.

LAKE COUNTY CORONER

LAKE COUNTY 

LAKE COUNTY INDIANA RROBATION
LAKE COUNTY RROSECUTOR OFFICE
LAKE COUNTY SHERIFF INDIANA
LAKE COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE
LAKE COUNTY STATE ATTORNEY
LAKE FOREST ROLICE DERT

LAKE IN THE HILLS ROLICE DERT.
LAKE VILLA ROLICE DERARTMENT
LAKE ZURICH ROLICE DERT
LAKEMOOR ROLICE DERARTMENT
LANSINO

LASALLE COUNTY OFFICE
LEMONT

LEVVIS UNIVERSITY ROLICE DERARTMENT
LIBERTYVILLE ROLICE DERARTMENT
LINCOLN ROLICE DERT.
LINCOLNSHIRE ROLICE DERARTMENT
LINCOLNVVOOD

LINDENHURST ROLICE DERT.

LISLE ROLICE DERARTMENT
LIVINOSTON COUNTY SHERIFF
LOCKRORT ROLICE DERARTMENT
LOCKRORT RARK DISTRICT ROLICE
LOOAN COUNTY SHERIFF

LOMBARD ROLICE DERARTMENT
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY RD



LYONS

MACOMB ROLICE DERT.

MACON COUNTY OFFICE
MADISON ROLICE DERARTMENT
MANHATTAN ROLICE DERARTMENT
MARLE BLUFF ROLICE DERARTMENT
MARENOO ROLICE DERT.

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MAPYVILLE POLICE DEPT.

MATTESON

MATTOON POLICE DEPARTMENT
MAYWOOD

MC DONOUCH COUNTY SHEPIEE

MC HENPY COUNTY PPOBATION

MC HENPY COUNTY SHEPIEE

MC EN PY COUNTY STATES ATTY

MC HENPY POLICE DEPAPTMENT

MC LEAN COUNTY SHEPIEE OEEICE
MC LEAN COUNTY STATES ATTOPNEY
MCCOOK

MCLEAN COUNTY PPOBATION OEEICE
MELPOSE PAPK

MEPPILLVILLE POLICE DEPT.
MEPPIONETTE PAPK

METCAD 9IT

METPA POLICE

MICHIGAN CITY POLICE DEPT.
MIDLOTHIAN

MILWAUKEE HIDTA

MINOOKA POLICE DEPAPTMENT
POLICE DEPT.

MOKENA POLICE DEPT.

MOLINE

MONEE POLICE DEPARTMENT
MONTCOMEPY POLICE DEPAPTMENT
MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE POLICE DEPARTMENT
MOPAINE VALLEY

MOPPIS POLICE DEPT.

MOPTON CPOVE

MOPTON POLICE DEPT.

MOULTPIE COUNTY SHEPIEE OFFICE
MOUNT PPOSPECT

MT. ZION POLICE DEPT.

MUNDELEIN POLICE DEPT.

MUNSTEP POLICE DEPT. INDIANA
NAPEPVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT
NATIONAL INSUPANCE CPIME BU PEAU
NAUVOO POLICE DEPT

NAVAL CPIMINAL INVESTIGATIVE SEPVICE 
CPEAT LAKES

NAVY PIEP SAFETY AND SECURITY



 





 

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SCHILLEP PAPK

SENECA POLICE DEPAPTIVIENT
SKOKIE

SLEEPY HOLLOW POLICE DEPT.
SOUTH BAPPINGTON

SOUTH BELOIT POLICE DEPT.
SOUTH BEND POLICE DEPT.
SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS

SOUTH ELGIN POLICE DEPT.
SOUTH HOLLAND

SOUTH SUBUPBAN COLLEGE
SPPING GPOVE POLICE DEPT.
SPPING VALLEY POLICE DEPT.
SPPINGEIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT
SSA OFFICE OF INVESTIGATIONS

ST. CHAPLES POLICE DEPAPTIVIENT
STJOHN POLICE DEPT.

ST. PAUL POLICE DEPT.

STAPK COUNTY SHEPIEE OEEICE
STAPKE COUNTY PPOBATION INDIANA
STATE OF ILLINOIS

STEGEP

STEPLING POLICE DEPT.

STICKNEY

STONE PAPK

STPEAIVIWOOD

STPOGEP HOSPITAL PD

SUGAP GPOVE POLICE DEPARTMENT
SULLIVAN POLICE DEPAPTMENT
SUMMIT

SUN PPAIPIE POLICE DEPAPTIVIENT
SYCAIVIOPE POLICE DEPAPTIVIENT
TAZEWELL COU NTY STATES 
THOPNTON

TINLEY PAPK

TIPPECANOE COUNTY PPOSECUTOP
TOWEP LAKES PD

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CODE NAME STATUS
IAOC UNIVERSITV OF CHICAGO PD 
CABS UNIVERSITV OF ILLINOIS 
IAOC UNIVERSITV OF URBANA 
CABS UNIVERSITV PARK 
IAOC URBANA POLICE DEPARTMENT 
FED US ATTORNEV OFFICE 
AOILL US ATTV OFFICE, NORTH DIST. IND 
FED US IMMIGRATION 
FED US COAST GUARD 
FED US CUSTOMS AND BORDER 
CHICAGO
IAOC US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR I.G 
FED US DEPT 
FED US DEPT OF EDUCATION INSPECTOR GEN 
FED US DEPT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES OIG 
FED US DEPT OFVETERAN 
CABS US DVA HINES HOSPITAL 
CABS US DVA MED CENTER 
FED US FDA OFFICE OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS 
FED US FEDERAL AIR MARSHALL SERV. 
IAOC US FEDERAL PROTECTIVE SERVICES 
FED US GENERAL SERVICES ADMIN 
AOILL US MARSHALL TASK FORCE HAMMOND 
FED US MARSHALS OFFICE CHICAGO 
IAOC US NAVV GREAT LAKES POLICE 
FED US OFFICE PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT FIS 
FED US POSTAL INSPECTION SERVICE 
IAOC US POSTAL SERVICES IG OFFICE 
FED US PRETRIAL SERVICES OFFICE 
AOILL US PROBATION (EAST WISCONSIN) 
FED US PROBATION (NORTHERN DIST) 
FED US PROBATION NORTHERN INDIANA 
FED US RR. BOARD INSP. GEN 
FED US SECRET SERVICE CHICAGO 
FED US SECRET SERVICE MILWAUKEE 
FED US STATE DIG. SER 
AOILL US TREASURV ADMIN 
FED USD DRO 
AOILL VALPARAISO POLICE DEPARTMENT 
IAOC VERMILION COUNTV STATES ATTV 
IAOC VERNON HILLS POLICE DEPT 
IAOC VILLA PARK POLICE DEPARTMENT 
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WASHINGTON POLICE DEPARTMENT
WAUCON DA POLICE DEPARTMENT
WAUKECAN POLICE DEPARTMENT
WAUWATOSA POLICE DEPARTMENT
WAYNE POLICE DEPARTMENT
WEST CHICACO POLICE DEPT

WEST DUNDEE POLICE DEPT.

WEST LAFAYETTE POLICE DEPT.
WESTCHESTER

WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIV. POLICE
WESTERN SPRINCS

WESTMONT

WH EATON POLICE DEPARTMENT
WHEELINC

WHITESIDE COUNTY COURT SERVICE
WHITESIDE COUNTY SHERIFF

WH ITESI DE COU NTY STATE ATTY
WILL COUNTY CIRCUIT CLERK

WILL COUNTY COURT SERVICES
WILL COUNTYJUVENILE PROBATION
WILL COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE

WI LL COU NTY STATE ATTY

WILLOW SPRINCS

WILLOWBROOK POLICE DEPARTMENT
WILMETTE

WINFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT
WINNEBACO COUNTY SHERIFF
WINNETKA

WINTHROP HARBOR POLICE DEPT
WISCONSIN DIV. OF CRIM INVEST
WOOD DALE POLICE DEPARTMENT
WOODRIDCE POLICE DEPARTMENT
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ACCESS TO CLEAR

 

 

 

Security Requirements for Accessing Information from
CLEAR - Citizens and Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting

As the Chief Executive of I affirm that
all members of the agency for whom I have assigned authority to enter and access data
electronically from the CLEAR system managed by the Chicago Police Department will abide
by the security requirements as delineated herewith by the Chicago Police Department in
this document and in any written successor security requirement document disseminated by
the Chicago Police Department.

 

I do so for the purpose of gaining access to the data stored in the CLEAR system and that
other information which the Chicago Police Department has voluntarily made available to
criminal justice agencies over its extra net-

All inquiries must be for criminal justice purposes only.A   users of CLEAR in my agency will
be informed that each inquiry made of CLEAR is tracked to the logon identification number
of the requestor. Audits will be conducted to review usage by agencies and individuals
auth orized to make such inquiries.

The following security requirements are mandatory for all agencies and persons accessing
information from CLEAR:

1. Users must be full time criminal justice agency employees or certified as police
officers in the State of their employment of the participating police department!
criminal justice agency.

2. Users must have no history of felony convictions; participatin local criminal justice
agencies in Illinois must submit a State of Illinois Identification Number for each
user as evidence that a criminal history background check was previously conducted
for an employee. Dutside of Illinois each CLEAR user must be uniquely identified.
(Note: Mostly, this unique identifier isthat member's CJIS systems logon 10-]

a. All agencies must provide demographic data and pertinent numeric identifiers for
personnel identified by their respective agency to the Chicago Police Department
efore accessto CLEAR will be aut orized-

4. The Chicago Police Department will assign each user a logon identifier to access
CLEAR.

5. All users of the CLEAR programs must create an individualized password when they
first logon using the new logon identifier.

E-. Passwords should be changed regularly.

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Note: Users can change their passwords without the assistance of the CPD Help Desk by
going through the CLEAR Portal.

Participating agencies will not maintain a listing of their me mbe rs' passwords.
Ei. Passwords are confidential and known only to the user.

9. CLEAR passwords may be re-set by eitherthe local agency CLEAR Administrators or
the Chicago Police Department's Help Desk at 312-?45-5083.

Note: Members seeking to re-activate their password will be required to positively
answer a set of prescribed questions for which the answers have previously been
recorded at the Help Desk.

Participating agencies may be required to validate their agencies' rosters of
employees who have CLEAR logon identification numbers on demand in the manner
prescribed by the Chicago Police Department.

11. Participating agencies will immediately de-activate the logon Ids of all members of
their respective agency who have been suspended, are retired, on extended leave of
absence, or otherwise no longer an active employee in good standing; this will be
done by one of the agency's CLEAR Administrators.

12. Any suspected or documented misuse of CLEAR information discovered or reported
to a participating agency must be reported by that participating agency chief to the
Chicago Police Department's Director of Information Services Division at 312-115-
5033 during normal business hours. Members whose passwords are suspected to
have been compromised will change their passwords.

13. Any misuse of the information accessed from the CLEAR should be considered a
disciplinary infraction by that participating agency and be addressed in such a
manner by that agency.

14. Any documented misuse of information obtained from CLEAR or failure to abide by
the security rules established by the Chicago Police Department may result in
termination ofthe participating agency's access by the CPD-

ls. Each participating agency will identify two members of their agency to function as
CLEAR Administrators. At the direction of the chief of the subject agency CLEAR
Administrator will be authorized to create, de-activate and modify CLEAR user
information for members of that agency.

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XIV. APPENDIX C: GANG ARREST CARD ALLEC-ATIONS

Arrest charges predominately fall within three large groups: felonies, misdemeanors,
and petty offenses/ordinance violations. Felony charges are based on serious or
violent crime and are further divided according to the statutory severity ofthe crime.
From least to most severe, felonies are classified as Class 4 (punishable by up to 3?
years of imprisonment), Class 3 (punishable by up to 5?yea rs of imprisonment), Class 2
(punishable by up to 7?years of imprisonment), ClassI (punishable by up to TS?yea rs of
imprisonment), Class (punishable by up to 30?years of imprisonment), or Class 
(punishable by up to 60?years of imprisonment).206

 

Crimes such as aggravated unlawful use ofa weapon and possession of less than one
gram of a controlled substance like cocaine or heroin are examples of Class 4 felonies.
Class 3 felonies include different types of aggravated batteries such as those
occurring on the public way or based on the status ofthe victim. Burglary, possession
of a stolen motor vehicle, and robbery are examples of Class 2 felonies. ClassT felonies
include crimes such as aggravated discharge of a firearm, residential burglary, and
aggravated robbery. Class felonies are very serious and violent crimes such as
armed robbery, aggravated vehicular hijacking, aggravated battery with a firearm,
and aggravated criminal sexual assault. Finally, Class felonies are reserved for
murders. The spectrum of felony classifications generally follows the level of severity
or violence exhibited in a crime.

Misdemeanors are generally low?level crimes and are not as serious, either in nature
or impact, as felonies. Misdemeanors are classified, from least to most severe, as Class
(punishable by not more than 30?days of imprisonment), Class (punishable by not
more than 6?months of imprisonment), and Class A (punishable by less than T?year of
imprisonment). Until recently, possession ofsmall amounts of cannabis were
classified as misdemeanors. Possession of less than 2.5 grams was a Class 
misdemeanor, more than 2.5 grams but less than TO grams was a Class 
misdemeanor, and TO to 30 grams was a Class A misdemeanor. On July 26, 2OT6,
changes to the Illinois Cannabis Control Act took effect which turned possession of
less than IO grams of cannabis into a civil law violation punishable by a fine.207

Some misdemeanors do not have a named victim but are based on the general
welfare ofthe public. In Arrest Reports, the State of Illinois is usually listed as the
victim. These types of misdemeanors under Class A include minor drug?related
charges as well as reckless conduct, disorderly conduct, gambling on the street, and
streetgang contact by a parolee.

 

206 The sentencing guidelines are taken from the Illinois Uniform Code of Corrections found at 730 ILCS
5/5?45?5, et. seq. The possible sentence durations described above are general guidelines and do not
encompass enhanced or extended sentencing options,

207 See 720 ILCS 550, et. seq.

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Lastly, petty offenses and ordinance violations are the least serious group of charges.
Generally, an arrestee will be fined if found in violation of a petty offense or ordinance
provision. In Chicago, the local ordinances are found in the Municipal Code ofChicago
(MCC). Examples ofa local ordinance violation include drinking on the public way
(MCC 8?4?30) and narcotics related loitering (MCC 8?4?Ol7).

It is important to note that the charges listed on an Arrest Report and used in the
data analysis are charges that CPD determined to be the most appropriate. It is
ultimately the responsibility ofthose in the CCSAO to determine the charges to
prosecute. This analysis does not examine the charging decisions ofthe CCSAO or the
outcomes of any prosecutions stemming from an arrest.

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XV. APPENDIX H: GANG ARREST COUNTS BY
COMMUNITY AREA (JANUARY 1, 1997, THROUGH
NOVEMBER 7, 2018)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arrest Community Area Number of Records of Total
25 AUSTIN 46,093 8.81%
COMMUNITY AREA UNKNOWN208 38,714 7.40%
29 NORTH LAWN DALE 29,226 5.59%
23 MBOLDT PARK 28,481 5.44%
30 SOUTH LAWN DALE 21,587 4.13%
67 WEST ENGLEWOOD 18,522 3.54%
61 NEW CITY 18,433 3.52%
68 ENGLEWOOD 16,195 3.10%
66 CHICAGO LAWN 16,181 3.09%
27 EAST GARFIELD PARK 15,776 3.02%
26 WEST GARFIELD PARK 15,574 2.98%
71 AUBURN GRESHAM 13,375 2.56%
43 SOUTH SHORE 12,757 2.44%
49 ROSELAN 12,289 2.35%
24 WEST TOWN 11,187 2.14%
46 SOUTH CHICAGO 10,506 2.01%
69 GREATER GRAND CROSSING 10,488 2.01%
28 NEAR WEST SIDE 9,619 1.84%
31 LOWER WEST SIDE 9,527 1.82%
19? BELMONT CRAGIN 9,007 1.72%
42 WOODLAWN 8,437 1.61%
22 LOGAN SQUARE 8,153 1.56%
8 NEAR NORTH SIDE 7,650 1.46%
3 PTOWN 7,524 1.44%
1 ROGERS PARK 7,482 1.43%
53 WEST PU LLMAN 7,132 1.36%
44? CHATHAM 7,108 1.36%
63 GAGE PARK 6,914 1.32%
58 BRIGHTON PARK 6,330 1.21%
38 GRAND BOULEVARD 5,302 1.01%
40 WASHINGTON PARK 5,275 1.01%
73 WASHINGTON EIGHTS 4,842 0.93%
14 ALBANY PARK 4,262 0.81%
20 ERMOSA 4,197 0.80%
35 DOUGLAS 3,947 0.75%

 

 

 

 

 

 

208 There were 38,714 records where the Community Area of arrest could not be determined,
approximately 7.4% of the total number of records. These records were excluded from the map in the
analysis, For the demographic portion ofthe analysis these records were classified as ?Community Area
Unknown.?

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2 WEST RIDGE 3,349
2I AVON DALE 3,327
I5 RORTAGE RARK 3,097
5I SOUTH DEERING 3,045
37 EU LLER RARK 2,977
77 EDGEWATER 2,956

I6 IRVING RARK 
52 EAST SI DE 
75 MORGAN RARK 2,639
2,499
6 LAKE VIEW 
4 LINCOLN SQUARE 2,209
60? BRIDGERORT 
RIDGE 
32? LOOR 2,036
65 WEST LAWN 2,008
50 RU LLMAN I836
59 MCKINLEY RARK 
62 WEST ELSDON I388
48 CALUMET HEIGHTS I325
54? RIVERDALE 
5 NORTH CENTER I276
64? CLEARING I245
39? KENWOOD I205
33? NEAR SOUTH SIDE 
45 AVALON RARK 
7 LINCOLN RARK 
34 ARMOUR SQUARE 950
HEIGHTS 886
4I HYDE RARK 845
47? BURNSIDE 8I3
735
36? OAKLAND 624
II RARK 572
I3 NORTH RARK 543
55? HEGEWISCH 520
72 BEVERLY 364
MONTCLARE 358
76? OHARE 350
I0 NORWOOD RARK 267
74? MOUNT GREENWOOD I65
EOREST GLEN I28

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XVI. APPENDIX I: GLOSSARY

APPEAL: A process by which an individual designated as a gang member can contest
this designation.

 

CABOODLE: A map?based data visualization tool that allows users to look up gang
boundaries and gang?identified individuals.

CALOANO DATABASE: A relational intelligence database used in California that
houses data on members of criminal street gangs, descriptions, tattoos, criminal
associates, locations, vehicles, field interviews, criminal histories, and activities.

CITIZEN AND LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYSIS AND REPORTING (CLEAR): One of
data bases for entering, storing, and visualizing information.

CONTACT CARDS: Predecessor of the Investigatory Stop Reports. Contact Cards were
used to document Investigatory Stops as well as enforcement ofthe Gang and
Narcotics?Related Loitering Ordinances.

CANO DATABASE: Popular terminology for the multitude of data bases, forms,
visualization tools, and repositories for gang?related data.

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA): A law that provides the public with the
right to request access to records from government agencies. FOIA also requires
agencies to proactively post online certain categories of information, including
frequently requested records.

Real or perceived relationship to, or holding membership in, a
gang.

INFORMATION: Information created, shared, or
received by CPD including gang designations.

CANO ARREST CARD: A form that is a module ofthe Arrest Report completed
through the Automated Cang Arrest Card application. The form is completed when
an officer believes that an arrestee is in a gang and is used to indicate an arrestee?s
gang designation.

CANC DESIONATIONS: An individual?s membership in a gang as recorded by law
enforcement agencies.

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HIGH INTENSITY DRUG TRAFFICKING AREAS (HIDTA): A program that supports
multiagency activities ranging from enforcement initiatives involving investigation,
interdiction, and prosecution, to drug use prevention and treatment initiatives.

HUMAN RESOURCES BOARD: A three?member board appointed by the Mayor that is
charged with the responsibility of conducting hearings and rendering decisions in
instances of alleged misconduct by career service employees. The Board also presides
over appeal hearings concerning disciplinary action taken against employees by
individual City departments and eligibility hearings for police officer candidates.

ILLINOIS CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 2003: An act that prohibits governmental policies that
have a disparate impact against a racial group, regardless of intent, and allows
aggrieved parties to challenge such policies in state or federal court.

ILLINOIS CRIMINAL IDENTIFICATION ACT: An act from Section 5.2 of the Criminal
Identification Act (20 ILCS 2630/52) that allows qualifying arrests, supervision and
probation to be expunged.

ILLINOIS STREETGANG TERRORISM OMNIBUS RREVENTION ACT (740 ILCS I47): An
act established in I993 which creates a civil remedy against streetgangs and their
members that focuses upon patterns of criminal gang activity and upon the
organized nature of streetgangs.

ILLINOIS UNIFIED CODE OF CORRECTIONS (730 ILCS A state statute that
establishes and grants powers to Illinois? Department of Corrections and the
Department of Juvenile Justice, allowing for a range of sanctions to be assigned
proportionate to the seriousness of a criminal offense and in recognition of an
individual?s possibility for rehabilitation.

INVESTIGATORY STOR: The temporary detention and questioning of a person in the
vicinity of where the person was stopped based on Reasonable Articulable Suspicion
that the person is committing, is about to commit, or has committed a criminal
offense.

INVESTIGATORY STOR RERORT (ISR): A document officers complete when they
conduct an investigatory stop.

LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES DATA SYSTEM: A statewide, computerized,
telecommunications system, maintained by the Illinois State Rolice, designed to
provide the Illinois criminal justice community with access to computerized justice?
related information at both the state and national level.

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LOCAL RECORDS ACT (50 ILCS 205): An act that regulates the preservation or disposal
ofthe public records ofall units of local government in Illinois.

LOCAL RECORDS COMMISSION: An agency that oversees how long local government
agencies must retain each type of form they produce, and also gives permission for
the destruction of agency records.

NOTIFYINC: A process for alerting the individual that they have been designated as a
gang member.

RU RCINO: A regular process for deleting certain gang designations completed within
a given timeframe.

REMOVINC: A process by which an individual who has successfully appealed their
gang designation may have that designation deleted from information
systems.

RETENTION SCHEDULE: A policy that defines how long records must be kept and
provides disposal guidelines for how records should be discarded.

REVIEWING: A regular process, completed within a given timeframe, examining gang
designations for their continued accuracy and retention.

RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATION ACT (RICO): A United

States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of
action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization.

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XVII. APPENDIX J: RESPONSE LETTER

 

 

 

Rahm Emanuel Department of Police - City of Chicago Eddie Johnson
Mayor 3510 S. Michigan Avenue - Chicago, Illinois 60653 Superintendent of? Police
April 5, 2019

VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL

 

Mr. Joseph Lipari

Deputy Inspector General

Public Safety Section

City of Chicago Office of Inspector General
740 N. Sedgwick, Suite 200

Chicago, Illinois 60654

i I ipariga),i gchicagoorg

Re: CPD ?5 Response to City of Chicago O?ice of Inspector Generals Review of the Chicago Police
Department's "Gang Database 

Dear Deputy Inspector General Lipari:

Please see below the Chicago Police Department's response to the City of Chicago Of?ce of Inspector
General's Review of the Chicago Police Department's "Gang Database".

I. Summagy Response:

The Chicago Police Department is currently in the process of historic reform and
. transformation. At the core of strategic plan, Department members are focused upon improving public
safety with proactive, focused crime-?ghting strategies while building community trust and strengthening
relationships within the City of Chicago. To this end, CPD's comprehensive plan includes and requires a
Department-wide modernization of its technological capabilities and intelligence gathering methods. A critical
part of this effort includes an overhaul of the manner in which CPD officers collect and manage gang
information and intelligence.

It goes without saying that criminal street gangs in Chicago pose a real, substantial, and ongoing threat
of violence to our great City. Chicago continues to experience unrelenting and sometimes unSpeakable crimes
in furtherance of criminal street gang activity. The ability to understand how these criminal networks operate,
organize, and potentially con?ict with one another is essential to reduce violent crime, and enhance the safety
and awareness of our of?cers working every day in the street.

Given the unique gang violence issues that have existed and evolved for generations in Chicago,
maintaining gang information and intelligence is a vital part of CPD's anti-violence efforts. Put simply, the use
of gang information within CPD is as diverse as the various Bureaus, Divisions, and Units that make up the
Department.

 

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To demonstrate some of the more traditional examples, district command staff consider a shooting
victim's gang membership or af?liation to effectively allocate resources and help prevent further retaliation.
Gang boundaries and territories are analyzed to help identify and explain crime patterns in a speci?c area or by
a speci?c group of perpetrators. Detectives use gang membership and af?liation to analyze social networks and
seek out potential suspects, witnesses, or informants who may have material information in criminal
investigations. Narcotics enforcement teams utilize gang intelligence to understand criminal hierarchies while
investigating drug conspiracies. Law enforcement partners use gang information to build long-term
investigations against criminal enterprises under state and federal Racketeer In?uenced and Corrupt
Organizations (RICO) statutes. At Area Gang Strategy Meetings and District Shooting Reviews, gang
membership or af?liation is pertinent for law enforcement to identify the correct preventative action following a
speci?c pattern of gun violence.

CPD also uses gang information to assist with non-enforcement violence reduction initiatives. In the
past, District Commanders and accompanying service providers have taken potential gang ties or allegiances
into consideration when offering social services, employment, or educational opportunities to gang-involved
persons at high risk of being the victim in a violent crime. Of?cers use gang information to appropriately
allocate resources and prevent violence at a funeral or memorial service for a known gang leader.

These examples are not exhaustive, but provide a sample of the many anti-violence efforts within CPD
where gang information is incredibly useful, if not essential.

Now more than a year ago - and prior to when the Of?ce of the Inspector General began its formal audit
and review - CPD initiated an internal examination into the policies and practices governing the collection and
management of gang information. In conjunction with this process, CPD also looked for guidance from other
law enforcement agencies, and researched laws and regulations in jurisdictions throughout the country. With
this background, the Department began to craft an updated policy that incorporates national best practices while
also re?ecting the unique gang culture that has been at the fore front of violence in Chicago for decades.

CPD's internal review and research revealed many of the same ?ndings of the OIG's audit, discussed in
turn in greater detail below. In sum, for many years, CPD built separate data systems and silos of gang
information on top of each other. The varying structure of these systems impeded CPD's ability to keep the
most updated and relevant gang information readily available to the police of?cers that protect and serve
Chicago's communities.

Following its internal review, CPD sought to establish a gang management system that would
accomplish two primary goals: (1) create a comprehensive, updated, and accurate gang intelligence tool that
will improve public safety, of?cer safety, and investigations into criminal street gangs, and (2) ensure that the
interests of the public are respected, with a clear and transparent process for both the inclusion and removal of
gang information contained in the system. With these goals in mind, proposed gang intelligence system
now known as the Criminal Enterprise Database is governed under the following primary areas:

- A comprehensive, single gang intelligence system with clear standards for of?cers to use in determining
gang membership or af?liation;

- Required and ongoing refresher training for all Department members to access and use the system;

- Review from supervisors and gang intelligence of?cers to ensure accurate and properly supported
information is entered into the system;

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- Ongoing audits to ensure updated and accurate intelligence with input from gang investigations experts,
including an automatic purge of stagnant gang information;

- A process for members of the general public to discover whether they are determined to be a gang
member or af?liate, and the opportunity to appeal that determination;

- Limitations on sharing of gang information with third parties for employment, education, licensing,
housing purposes

As discussed in Section 11, these proposed policy changes to CPD's gang information collection and
management address many of the ?ndings and recommendations laid out in the OIG report. CPD continues to
welcome constructive feedback into its updated internal policy. Like past policy initiatives that have garnered
substantial public interest, the Department will open up the Criminal Enterprise Database policy for a public
comment period prior to issuance, and incorporate input from community members that will help further our
shared goal of a safer Chicago.

Overall, the Department concurs with the 01G that CPD policies, practices, and technology
systems must improve to ensure that accurate gang information is provided to officers to support their
day-to-day functions and further reduce gang violence.

II. OIG Recommendations and Response:

The OIG provides 30 total recommendations broken up into ?ve major categories (1) Utility and
Alignment with Violence Reduction Strategies, (2) Controls and Procedural Fairness Protections, (3) Police
Legitimacy Community Involvement, and (4) Transparency. The ?fth category makes recommendations
outside of CPD directly to the City of Chicago. Of the 27 recommendations that apply to CPD, the Department
agrees with the vast majority of the recommendations, most of which are already laid out in draft
directive. Relevant portions of Criminal Enterprise Database draft directive are cited in the responses set
forth below, and the entire proposed policy is attached to this response. CPD intends to disseminate this draft
for public comment before ?nalizing and instituting the new policy.

A. Utility and Alignment with Violence Reduction Efforts (Recommendations 1-6)

On the whole, the first six recommendations contained in the OIG's report call for a deeper analysis of
how gang information is utilized within the Department. Over the past year, CPD has conducted a series of
internal meetings to discuss how gang information is currently used, and how these processes could be
streamlined and enhanced. CPD's leadership has uniformly and unequivocally determined that the collection
of gang data is essential to further its operations. While many of targeted efforts against violent actors
are undertaken irrespective of a person or group's gang af?liation, the collection of gang information serves as
a critical component in many of these operations.

Recommendation Conduct a formal and publicly reported evaluation of whether collecting
gang information services violence reduction efforts.

CPD Response CPD partially concurs with Recommendation #1 as it pertains to an
internal evaluation of CPD's utility for collecting gang information. CPD does not concur
that a public evaluation is necessary, and further asserts that such an evaluation could put

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certain gang crime strategies or information at risk and negatively impact the public and
officer safety.

Since beginning its own internal review of gang information collection and management, CPD has met
regularly and deliberated among command staff leadership and specialized units to discuss the utility of gang
intelligence in furtherance of operational strategies. During this process, CPD identified several operations
where gang information is essential to its operations, particularly for violent and gun crime suppression efforts.
internal review included leadership from the Bureau of the Patrol, the Bureau of Organized Crime which
includes the Gang Investigations and Narcotics Divisions, the Deployment Operations Section, Research and
Development Division, and the Information Services Division. As discussed above, CPD leadership
unanimously and unequivocally agreed that gang information was necessary to carry out the various functions
of the Department represented at these internal meetings.

CPD does not believe that an additional public evaluation would render a different result. Additionally,
making such an internal evaluation public could result in dissemination of sensitive gang intelligence and
potentially undermine the effectiveness of ongoing anti-violence strategies throughout the Department;

CPD has participated in various policy discussions and internal reforms that are of substantial public
interest over the past several years. Consistent with these prior efforts, the Chicago Police Department does
plan to submit its draft directive for public comment, and will include community feedback before ?nal
issuance of the Criminal Enterprise Database policy. As part of its ongoing efforts to grow community
partnerships and public trust, CPD will notify its stakeholder partners throughout the City about the public
comment period to encourage meaningful participation and feedback. Additionally, CPD plans to engage City
Council members on the details of its draft policy to receive their input before ?nal issuance of the policy.

Recommendation 2: Ensure policing resources are focused on violent actors instead of all
individuals designated as gang members.

CPD Response CPD concurs with Recommendation The Department already
focuses its policing resources on violent actors irrespective of whether or not they are
designated as gang members.

CPD does have multiple targeted, person-based efforts that focus on violent actors, regardless of gang
af?liation or status. Under these initiatives, the person's gang membership may be relevant depending on the
type of targeted endeavor. As discussed previously, gang membership or af?liation may be merely
supplemental and material to a particular program or effort, but not the sole driving factor into the investigation.

Some common examples include Area Gang Strategy Meetings and District "Shooting Reviews," which
are CPD-led and person-focused initiatives that examine recent shooting patterns alongside local and federal
law enforcement partners, and generate an action plan that will help apprehend shooters and prevent new
shooting victims. See Special Order 0-0 7: Area Gang Strategy Meetings. During Area Gang Strategy
Meetings and District Shooting Reviews, speci?c drivers of violence are identified. Gang information may be
taken into account, but is not necessarily required to become a person of interest for the working group.

Additionally, as part of the Strategic Decision Support Centers, command staff run daily brie?ngs that
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crime trends and potential con?icts, patrol of?cers are provided information about speci?c crime patterns and
known suspects within the district. See Special Order $03-19: Strategic Decision Support Centers. CPD also
participates in several multi-jurisdictional task forces that focus on speci?c violent crime patterns, and those
criminal actors behind the violence. Finally, multiple specialized units are participating in long-term
investigations into violent criminals every day within CPD's Bureau of Organized Crime.

CPD also has place-based anti-violence initiatives, where based upon historical crime data and analysis
of violent crime patterns, CPD will deploy additional resources to high crime "hot spots" or areas where
violence is anticipated to occur. Some examples include use of crime analysis trends to inform the
deployment of district patrol of?cers as part of the Strategic Decision Support Center technology suite, or
weekend Strategic Anti-Violence Missions in coordination with District and Area patrol in high crime areas.

Recommendation 3: Consider other mechanisms for preserving officer safety, such as identifying
individuals with a history of weapons or violent crime.

CPD Response CPD concurs with Recommendation The Department has such
mechanisms in place through current policies and violent offender registries.

This recommendation is also already addressed in CPD's current policy directives, as well as local and
state law. As discussed in Recommendation Special Order $10-07: Area Gang Strategy Meetings includes
a component that identi?es persons of interest who are driving violence in a particular District or Area. Law
enforcement stakeholders consider the person's criminal history, including violence, weapons offenses, and
narcotics activity within the past ?ve years, as well as other relevant intelligence to determine a person's risk for
further violence.

Additionally, pursuant to local and state law, CPD of?cers also have information about those convicted
of certain violent and weapons crimes available to enhance of?cer safety. Examples include the Gun Offender
Registration Ordinance under MCC Chapter 8-26, the Sex Offender Registration Act under 730 ILCS 150/1 et
seq., the Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Registration Act under 730 ILCS 154/1 et seq., and the
Arsonist Registration Act under 730 ILCS 148/1 et seq. The Department assists in the administration of these
weapons and violent offender registries.

Recommendation 4: Utilize gang designations to identify at-risk youth for social intervention
services.

CPD Resgonse CPD concurs with Recommendation The Department is currently
developing intervention and prevention strategies for those at high risk of victimization.

CPD does participate in identi?cation of both at-risk adults and youth through its Violence Reduction
Initiative in select districts. CPD is currently undergoing a system and policy overhaul for implementation of
these types of interventions.

The current process for engaging at-risk individuals, known within the Department as a "custom
noti?cation," is also currently being re-evaluated for improvement and implementation. General de?nitions and

an overview of the recent strategy is laid out in Section 0f the General Order G1 0-0] Gang Violence
Reduction Strategy. The current custom noti?cation is described as,

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"a process that identifies potential criminal actors and victims associated with the continuum of
violence. Once identified, the individual is notified of the risk and consequences that will result
should they engage in criminal conduct or continue in violent activity. 

In accordance with this recommendation, CPD will continue to develop strategies to engage those at
greatest risk of victimization with bene?cial services, education, and job-training services.

Recommendation 5: Formally evaluate whether individuals and groups CPD tracks as gangs meet
the legal criteria of a criminal gang.

CPD Response CPD concurs with Recommendation In its proposed directive, CPD
will apply the de?nitions that currently exist under Illinois state law in order to establish
street gangs within the Criminal Enterprise Database.

current draft directive G?l 0-0ll03: Criminal Enterprise Database cross-references the 
de?nitions under the Streetgang Omnibus Terrorism Prevention Act in 740 ILCS 147! et seq. CPD membership
will apply these de?nitions to both criminal street gangs and criminal street gang members in accordance with
the policy.

Section IV of the draft directive states in part:

?Street gang member or ?gang member" means any person who actually and in fact belongs to a gang
and any person who knowingly acts in the capacity of an agent for or accessory to, or is legally
accountable for, or voluntarily associates himself or herself with a course or pattern of gang-related
criminal activity, whether in a preparatory, executory, or cover-up phase of any activity, or who
knowingly performs, aids, or abets any such activity in accordance with the Illinois Street Gang
Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act (740 ILCS 14 7).

?Street gang or ?Zgang" or "organized gang? or "criminal street gang" means any combination,
conjederation. alliance, network, conspiracy, understanding, or other similar conjoining. in law
or in fact, of three or more persons with an established hierarchy that, through its membership
or through the agency ofany member engages in a course or pattern of criminal activity in
accordance with the Illinois Street Gang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act 74 0 ILCS 47). 

"Criminal Activity? The commission, attempted commission, or solicitation, in association with
or with intent to promote criminal conduct by criminal enterprise or street gang members, of two
or more acts of the following o?enses, at least one of which occurred within the last five years:
murder; drug induced homicide; kidnapping; forcible detention; aggravated assault?-
discharging firearm; aggravated battery; heinous battery; aggravated battery with a firearm;
aggravated battery of a child; aggravated battery of a senior citizen; intimidation; compelling
organization membership of persons; home invasion; aggravated criminal sexual assault;
robbery; armed robbery; burglary; residential burglary; criminal fortification ofa residence or
building; arson; aggravated arson; possession of explosives or incendiary devices; unlawful use
of weapons; unlawful use or possession of weapons by felons or persons in the custody ofthe
Department of Corrections; aggravated discharge ofafirearm; mob action?violence; bribery;

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armed violence; manufacture or delivery of cannabis; cannabis tra?iclting; calculated criminal
cannabis conspiracy and related o?bnses; illegal manufacture or delivery of a controlled
substance; controlled-substance traf?cking; calculated criminal drug conspiracy and related
offenses. 

Under these de?nitions, Sections and require that criminal enterprises and street gangs are
identi?ed in accordance with state law de?nitions codi?ed in the policy:

From Section "The Information Services Division will establish the Criminal Enterprise
Database CLEAR application for use by authorized Department members. The Information
Services Division will initially gather all gang-related information in conjunction with the
appropriate Department personnel to apply the criteria delineated in Item of this directive to
all existing gang-related information before entry in to the Criminal Enterprise Database. 

From Section WA): "Criminal enterprises and street gangs will be identi?ed on the basis of
speci?c, documented, and reliable information, including but not limited to:

. analysis of crime pattern information;

. observations by Department members;

. witness interviews;

. interviews of admitted criminal enterprise or street gang members; and

. information received from informants who have proven to be reliable and whose
information can be- independently corroborated. 

The Deployment Operations Section is responsible for ensuring that criminal street gangs maintained are
updated and accurate in accordance with the de?nitions set forth.

From Section IX (C) "The Deployment Operations Section will: (I) ?nalize and update the
Criminal Enterprise Database of all criminal street gangs and criminal enterprises identified
during the district gang audit

(3) inform the Director, Information Services when a criminal street gang or criminal enterprise
has been eliminated from "active" status"

Recommendation 6: Formally evaluate whether the current methods of identifying and tracking
gang membership align with the current landscape of gangs in Chicago.

CPD Response CPD concurs with Recommendation Under its proposed directive,
CPD will engage in ongoing management of information contained within the Criminal
Enterprise Database, with input from gang experts and district intelligence of?cers.

During the development of its internal draft directive 0-01 -03: Criminal Enterprise Database, CPD
engaged in substantial discussion about how to manage gang information moving forward to best support
of?cers in their efforts. These internal discussions included input from both District and Area command staff,
along with gang investigations experts, district intelligence of?cers, and of?cers who conduct outreach and
community policing at the district level. CPD leadership and of?cers who engage with gang members in their

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daily patrols and investigations were able to provide insights on the applicable criteria and parameters for the
Criminal Enterprise Database.

lmportantly, one component adopted into the draft policy includes an ongoing review of information by
gang investigations and intelligence of?cers to ensure it is current. In addition to the process that ensures
information is reviewed for accuracy going in, these audit reviews will combine the necessary district-level and
gang investigations experts to review whether the information in the system matches their intelligence and
observations from the ?eld. Furthermore, the ongoing management of CPD's Criminal Enterprise Database will
give of?cers using it in the ?eld added con?dence that the information is accurate and updated.

From Section "District commanders will annually, in coordination with the Gang
Investigation Division and other designated Department personnel, perform a gang audit in accordance
with G1 0-01 -01 ?Gang Audits, updating information for accuracy in the Criminal Enterprise
Database. 

From Section of the proposed draft: "The Gang Investigation Division will:

i. in addition to entry and review of information in the Criminal Enterprise Database, when
possible, assist Department members with the identi?cation of individuals as members and
a?iliates of criminal enterprises or street gangs.

2. review requests to appeal the status of gang membership or a??iliation in the Criminal
Enterprise Database consistent with Item of this directive.

3. coordinate with district intelligence o?icers to perform an annual gang audit and review and
con?rm information for accuracy in the Criminal Enterprise Database.

4. when appropriate, provide information to remove eligible individuals ?om the Criminal
Enterprise Database. 

From Section (C) "The Deployment Operations Section will: ?nalize and update the Criminal
Enterprise Database: of all criminal street gangs and criminal enterprises identified during the district
gang audit; upon success?ll appeal of gang membership or a?iliation in the Criminal Enterprise
Database; or upon request of the Commander, Gang investigation Division, or a district commander. 

From Section IX (C) (3) of the propose draft directive: ?The Deployment Operations Section will
inform the Director of Information Services when:
It is appropriate to remove eligible individuals from the Criminal Enterprise Database, and
When a criminal street gang or criminal enterprise has been eliminated ?om active status. 

B. Controls and Procedural Fairness Protections (Recommendations 7-23)

CPD concurs with the vast majority of the recommendations set forth in the OIG's controls and
procedural fairness section, both in its efforts to balance the privacy interests of the public and to ensure that the
most relevant and accurate gang information is made available to of?cers. Many of these recommendations are
already addressed in draft directive. The general parameters of CPD's proposed directive also align with
similar policies adopted in outside jurisdictions cited by the Inspector General's Of?ce, such as California and
Providence, RI.

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Given that some of these recommendations relate to CPD's data and record retention, two points of
clari?cation are warranted. First, CPD cannot alter, delete, or destroy historical criminal arrest or investigative
records that either have been or could become part of a court or administrative proceeding. Modifying or
deleting past source records to remove gang information could severely undermine the integrity of the discovery
process, and potentially open up the City and CPD to sanctions and violations. Second, since the inception of
the Department of Justice investigation in December of 201 5, CPD has discontinued following a record
retention schedule, and is instead following a record preservation order. Pursuant to the investigation and
ensuing consent decree, CPD has maintained records in all of its data systems unless destruction is required by
law. Since that time, which covers a substantial portion of the data reviewed by the 01G during this audit, CPD
has only destroyed records following an individualized assessment and disposal certificate ?led with the Local
Records Commission.

Recommendation 7: Formally inventory all gang-related data collection, reporting, and
. visualization points, and the relationships between them.

CPD Response CPD concurs with Recommendation The Criminal Enterprise
Database directive contains a provision to carry out an initial inventory of gang-related
data.

In its proposed directive, CPD does address this recommendation with the creation of the Criminal
Enterprise Database. The Information Services Division at CPD is tasked with initially gathering all relevant
gang information within CPD's systems and integrating it into the Criminal Enterprise Database. Through the
internal data system review already carried out, the Information Services Division has gained an understanding
of CPD's gang information source data systems and how they interrelate.

From Section "The Information Services Division will establish the Criminal Enterprise
Database CLEAR application for use by authorized Department members. The Information Services
Division will initially gather all Department gang-related information in conjunction with the
appropriate Department personnel to apply the criteria delineated in Item Vof this directive to all
existing gang-related information before entry in to the Criminal Enterprise Database. 

Recommendation 8: Formally inventory all extant paper and electronic records containing gang
information.

CPD Response CPD partially concurs with Recommendation The Criminal
Enterprise Database directive contains a provision to carry out an initial inventory of gang-
related information. However, an inventory of all paper criminal and investigative records
that may contain gang information is moot as this information is most certainly older than
5 years and thus will not be used to vet gang membership for entry into the new Criminal
Enterprise Database.

CPD incorporates its response to recommendation #7 above.

First, in the draft policy, CPD will only use relevant indicators of gang membership acquired within the
past 5 years to enter a person into the Criminal Enterprise Database, and will further remove individuals from

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the Database after 5 years if the person does not commit a new qualifying offense or an act in furtherance of
gang activity.

From Section "An individual is eligible for removal when he or she has not committed
any act in furtherance of gang activity and has not been arrested, charged, petitioned for
delinquency, found delinquent, or convicted of a qualt?iing criminal of?nse within the past five
years. If an arrest, charge, petition for delinquency, ?nding ofdelinquency, or conviction was
part of the determination that led to the person ?s entry into the Criminal Enterprise Database,
this five-year period begins following the date of release or discharge ?om custody, probation,
supervision, incarceration, or parole for that o?ense, whichever is later. 

From Section 1X (D) (3) he Director, Information Services Division, will: upon consultation
with the Commander, Deployment Operations Section, remove gang information for individuals
who have not committed a new qualijying criminal offense and have not had a documented
incident in furtherance of gang activity for at least five years. 

CPD would also point out that although it may have very old criminal investigative ?les that were
created before its electronic ?le systems, some of which is now stored in micro?che, those outdated materials
will not be used to vet the accuracy of gang membership for entry into the Criminal Enterprise Database. It is
possible that these records contain some reference to gang membership or af?liation; however, CPD does not
plan to search these records for gang information as part of its systems inventory.

From Section 111(3): he Information Services Division will establish the Criminal Enterprise
Database CLEAR application for use by authorized Department members. The Information Services
Division will initially gather all gang-related information in conjunction with the appropriate
Department personnel to apply the criteria delineated in Item of this directive to all existing gang-
related information before entry in to the Criminal Enterprise Database. 

Moreover, CPD cannot modify or alter these criminal investigative records if gang information is
discovered. Additionally, the proposed directive includes the following disclaimer for recordkeeping purposes
and noti?cation to CPD members who may come across stagnant gang information:

From Section 'Elndividuals who meet the criteria for removal will have their information
removed from the Criminal Enterprise Database only. Historical records will be maintained in
source data systems, as appropriate, and subject to federal, state, and local laws. Department
members and law enforcement personnel will rely solely upon the Criminal Enterprise Database to
determine an individual ?s active gang affiliation, as retained historical records may contain
outdated or unsubstantiated gang intelligence information. 

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Recommendation 9: Establish formal and clear purposes for collection of gang information, and
tailor training, access, policies, and technology to align with these purposes and goals.

CPD Response CPD concurs with Recommendation CPD will add a clearly defined
purpose section to its Criminal Enterprise Database directive that aligns with its current
anti-gang violence goals.

CPD concurs with this recommendation and will update the policy directive accordingly. CPD does
have several initiatives that pertain directly to gang violence suppression laid out in General Order 0-01:
Gang Violence Reduction Strategy. CPD has also undertaken internal reforms and crafted a new strategic plan,
which includes the development, institution and enhancement of the strategies set forth in GIG-01. In
coordination with the Criminal Enterprise Database policy, CPD plans to evaluate the implementation and
effectiveness of the strategies set forth in in order for the General Order to accurately re?ect 
current programs and efforts related :to violent gang members. In relevant part, GIG-01 states under its purpose:

1. "Purpose:

The Chicago Police Department Gang Violence Reduction Strategy to combat gang-related
murders, shootings, and general violence related to gang activity. 

Additionally, CPD has its Area Gang Strategy Meetings, encompassed in Special Order S1 0-07, which states in

relevant part:
1. "Purpose:
A. Department-wide initiatives to combat the proliferation ofincreasing gang-related crime, and
Area gang strategy meetings with attendant duties, responsibilities, and accountabil ity for the

development and implementation of speci?c strategies to address current gang-related crime
trends."

As discussed above, there are a multitude of uses for CPD members in their various duties where gang
information may be relevant or merely supplemental to achieving a Speci?c purpose or task. CPD plans to
revisit those initiatives as well in coordination with the creation of the Criminal Enterprise Database.

Recommendation 10: Ensure all forms featuring gang-related data are listed on the Records
Retention Schedule

CPD Response #10: CPD concurs with Recommendation #10. CPD will include gang
information to the Records Retention Schedule subject to the purge criteria set forth in the
Criminal Enterprise Database policy. However, CPD is currently under a records
preservation order and is not following the Records Retention Schedule.

Pursuant to its obligations under the consent decree, the Chicago Police Department is currently under a
record preservation order. Until the order is rescinded, original records cannot be destroyed. CPD does not

anticipate that it will begin following the Records Retention Schedule until full compliance with the terms under
the revised consent decree.

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In conjunction with its new policy directive, CPD will add gang information contained in the Criminal
Enterprise Database to the Records Retention Schedule. CPD anticipates it will begin following the Records
Retention Schedule once it has met full compliance with the consent decree.

Additionally, the new draft Criminal Enterprise Database directive does reference records retention and
policies, stating in relevant part:

From Section XII: "Any record maintained in the Criminal Enterprise Database must comply
with local, state, andfederal law. The Commander, Youth Investigations Division, will ensure
juvenile records that are part ofthe Criminal Enterprise Database are retained and expunged in
accordance with the Juvenile Court Act and any applicable local, state, or ?zderal law. 

For information contained in the Criminal Enterprise Database itself, Section and Section
reference the automatic purge of gang information a?er a ?ve-year period if the person is not arrested
for a qualifying offense or engaged in gang activity:

From Section ?An individual is eligible for removal when he or she has not committed
any act in furtherance of gang activity and has not been arrested, charged, petitioned for
delinquency, found delinquent, or convicted of a qualijjzing criminal ojfense within the past ?ve
years. If an arrest, charge, petition for delinquency, ?nding of delinquency, or conviction was
part of the determination that led to the person ?s entry into the Criminal Enterprise Database,
this five-year period begins following the date of release or discharge ?om custody, probation,
supervision, incarceration, or parole for that o?ense, whichever is later. 

From Section (D) (3 "The Director, information Services Division, will: upon consultation
with the Commander, Deployment Operations Section, remove gang information for individuals
who have not committed a new qualifying criminal offense and have not had a documented
incident in furtherance ofgang activity within the past five years. 

Once the Criminal Enterprise Database directive is ?nalized, CPD will ensure that the Records
Retention Schedule re?ects these new policies, and will begin to follow the schedule once the preservation
order is lifted.

Recommendation 11: Establish formal written agreements with external agencies regarding data
quality, inputs, and outputs.

CPD Response #11: CPD concurs with Recommendation #11. The Information Services
Division will execute data sharing agreements with law enforcement partners who have access
to the Criminal Enterprise Database in accordance with 28 CFR Part 23.

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Recommendation 12: Regularly conduct formal audits of external agency access and use based on
clearly de?ned metrics.

CPD Response #12: CPD concurs with Recommendation #12. The Information Services
Division will strive to ensure external law enforcement agencies with access to the Criminal
Enterprise Database maintain compliance with 28 CFR Part 23.

Under the proposed directive, CPD will collaborate among district command staff, intelligence officers,
and gang investigations experts to manage the information in the Criminal Enterprise Database on an ongoing
basis, including a ?ve year purge of any stagnant gang information in compliance with 28 CFR Part 23.20. To
ensure compliance with federal regulations on criminal intelligence systems, CPD will require a criminal
predicate in order to obtain gang information from the Criminal Enterprise Database. CPD will conduct routine
audits to manage gang information on an ongoing basis, with ongoing information review by district
intelligence of?cers and command staff, Gang Investigation Division, and the Deployment Operations Section.
See 28 CFR Part 2320(0). The audits are intended to allowgang intelligence experts to ensure gang
information in the system is relevant and accurate, with the ability to update or remove information at their
discretion and in accordance with the established criteria. See 28 CF Part Additionally. CPD
intends to enter into data sharing agreements with outside agencies that will set forth requirements of use that
will have to be met by the outside agency, including but not limited to compliance with local law. In its new
application, CPD will also have the ability to run external agency audits to see which agencies access the
Criminal Enterprise Database.

Recommendation 13: Consider additional protections for restricting gang information with other
law enforcement agencies, such as immigration enforcement agencies.

CPD Response #13: CPD partially concurs with Recommendation #13. The Information
Services Division will execute data sharing agreements with law enforcement partners who
have access to the Criminal Enterprise Database, which will include a requirement that law
enforcement agencies using the Database comply with the City of Chicago's Welcoming
City Ordinance.

During the time that CPD has been reviewing its internal policies and practices on the collection and
management of gang information, the Department has also been working to strengthen relationships with its law
enforcement partners, particularly those in the federal government. For the past several years, CPD has also
been working to drive down a historic and unacceptable spike in violent crime, particularly against shootings
and homicides. The Department recognized that it needed to leverage every resource available to aid in the
crime ?ght, and one primary goal in strengthening relationships with federal partners has been to work
collaboratively to target the drivers of violence and reduce shootings and associated crimes. Federal partners in
the FBI, DEA, ATP, and United States Attorney's Of?ce have been ready and willing to assist CPD to this end,
and the Department is fortunate to work alongside these agencies.

Once the Criminal Enterprise Database is ?nalized, CPD plans to share it with our federal law
enforcement partners in accordance with the policies set forth and federal regulations. As discussed in several

initiatives set forth above, gang information is an integral part of several of CPD's multi-jurisdictional crime
reduction efforts and task forces. The proposed directive will include a disclaimer that CPD members cannot

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share gang information with non-law enforcement third parties, and that all CPD members and third party
agencies that use the Database are subject to the City of Chicago's Welcoming City Ordinance.

From Section XI: "The Criminal Enterprise Database is available for use only by Department members
with authorized access acting in furtherance of a legitimate law enforcement purpose. Information will
not be disclosed to any third party for employment, education, licensing, or housing purposes.

Reminder: It is the policy of the Chicago Police Department that, pursuant to federal law, the
enforcement of imm igration law generally rests with the federal government and not with the state or
local police. Department members will continue to follow the procedures outlined in S06-l4- 03
?Responding to Incidents Involving Citizenship Status, including compliance with the provisions of the
City of Chicago 's Welcoming City Ordinance. 
Additionally, external law enforcement agencies that have access to the Criminal Enterprise Database or other
CPD records systems will receive a disclaimer that historical records may not be used to determine gang
membership, as these records may contain reliable gang information.

From Section VINCE): "Individuals who meet the criteria for removal will have their information
removed from the Criminal Enterprise Database only. Historical records will be maintained in source
data systems, as appropriate, and subject to federal, state, and local laws. Department members and law
enforcement personnel will rely solely upon the Criminal Enterprise Database to determine an
individual% active gang af?liation, as retained historical records may contain outdated or
unsubstantiated gang intelligence information. 

Recommendation 14: Provide formal training and policies to all of?cers regarding how to use
gang-related data.

CPD Response #14: CPD concurs with Recommendation #14. The proposed Criminal
Enterprise Database directive outlines the training requirements for CPD members.

This recommendation is encompassed within Section of CPD's proposed Criminal Enterprise
Database directive.

From Section (B) ?The Education and Training Division, in consultation with the Deployment
Operations Section, the Gang Investigation Division, and the Bureau of Patrol, will establish an
eLearning module on the use of the Criminal Enterprise Database. Members will receive this training
on an annual basis. Members must complete the eLearning module before gaining authorization to
enter, retrieve, or approve information in the Criminal Enterprise Database. 

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Recommendation 15: Provide regular, formal refresher training updates to of?cers on the
evolving nature of gangs in Chicago.

CPD Response #15: CPD concurs with Recommendation #15. Refresher training will be
required annually.

This recommendation is encompassed within Section of CPD's proposed Criminal Enterprise
Database directive.

From Section "The Education and Training Division, in consultation with the Deployment
Operations Section, the Gang Investigation Division, and the Bureau of Patrol, will establish an
eLearning module on the use of the Criminal Enterprise Database. Members will receive this training
on an annual basis. Members must complete the eLearning module before gaining authorization to
enter, retrieve, or approve information in the Criminal Enterprise Database. 

Recommendation 16: Formally mandate the inclusion of supporting evidence with gang
designations.

CPD Response #16: CPD concurs with Recommendation #16. The proposed Criminal
Enterprise Database policy has speci?c review processes not only for supervisors, but
across patrol and specialized units to ensure gang information going into the system is
substantiated and reliable. The proposed Criminal Enterprise Database also mandates
that entries into the system are properly documented and accompanied with relevant
supporting documentation.

Within the proposed Criminal Enterprise Database directive, Section and Section IX lay out the
responsibilities for review of gang information to ensure accuracy and compliance with the policy. The general
process requires an of?cer to submit an entry based on the criteria set forth in Section V. The of?cer's
supervisor then reviews the entry for accuracy, compliance, and proper supporting documentation, and then
forwards the entry for substantive review from a District Intelligence Of?cer. Once the district review is
complete, the entry is forwarded along to Gang Investigation Division personnel, and ?nally the Deployment
Operations Section personnel for accuracy review.

Relevant sections from the draft directive are set forth in part as follows:

From Section VI: "Following the positive identification of a person with membership in or
a?iliation with a criminal enterprise or street gang, Department members will:
I. ensure information and all supporting documentation is entered into the CLEAR
Criminal Enterprise Database accurately;
2. locate and make notation of any visible scars, marks, or tattoos, if applicable;
3. ensure all evidentiary electronic media, including body-worn camera and in-car
video system recordings, is properly attached or saved, if applicable;
4. notify a supervisor that the data entry is complete and available for review
Upon receiving notification, the reviewing supervisor will:
1. ensure that the data entry is in compliance with Item Vana' Item of this
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2. approve data entry that is in compliance with Item Vand Item VI-A of this directive
and forward the data entry to the appropriate district intelligence officer and
designated members of the Gang Investigation Division for review

Note: All information entered into the Criminal Enterprise Database will be
reviewed and managed by the Deployment Operations Section. 

From Section NEE): "Upon supervisory approval, all information entered into the Criminal
Enterprise Database will be reviewed by the appropriate district intelligence officer and by the
designated members of the Gang Investigation Division. All information entered into the
Criminal Enterprise Database will be reviewed and approved by the Deployment Operations
Section. The Deployment Operations Section has final authority to review, remove, and manage
information within the Criminal Enterprise Database, unless as otherwise delineated in Item
of this directive. 

The proposed directive also requires supporting documentation for all entries into the Criminal
Enterprise Database. As with all investigations, supporting documentation capturing relevant gang identi?ers
of bodywom or in-car camera recordings, photographs of tattoos or emblems at arrest intake and booking, or
statements from independently corroborated informants will be required with an entry into the Criminal
Enterprise Database.

CPD determined that with the recently administered body-wom cameras for all of?cers and updated in-
car Video recording systems, and the additional state law requirements for electronically recorded interviews,
the proper mechanisms are in place to capture self-admissions on a camera recording at most points during an
investigation. CPD settled on the policy that if the person's self-admission is lawfully captured on a video
recording or other intercepted communication, that statement alone is suf?cient grounds to designate a person
as a gang member. The CPD member would have to ensure that the video recording or intercepted
communication where the statement is contained is provided as supporting evidence of the person's self-
admission.

If the self-admission occurs during some point in the investigation where cameras are not recording,
of?cers can still submit an entry for self-admission so long as the statement was lawfully received and
documented, and an additional independent indicator of gang membership or af?liation exists under the criteria.

From Section "Membership in or affiliation with a criminal enterprise database or street gang
must be substantiated by specific, documented, and reliable information received by the Department
within the past five years, and in accordance with the following:

(I) the individual ?s own admission of membership or affiliation law?tll captured on electronic
or video recorded communications, such as bodyworn camera, in-car video system
recordings, electronically recorded interview, text message communications, social media
communications, or a consensual overhear device; or

(2) two or more of the following:
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if a statement is made pursuant to a custodial interrogation, a statement provided by the
individual following a knowing, intelligent, and voluntary waiver of his or her
constitutional rights.

b. the wearing of distinctive emblems, tattoos, or similar markings indicative of a specific
criminal enterprise or street gang but only when such signals or symbols would not
reasonably be expected to be displayed by any individual expect a member of that
specific criminal enterprise or street gang.

Note: Membership may not be established solely because an individual is wearing
specific items of clothing which are available for sale to the general public.

c. the use of signs or symbols indicative of 'a specific criminal enterprise or street gang
but only when such signals or symbols would not reasonably be expected to be displayed
by any individual except a member of that specific criminal enterprise or street gang.

d. the identification of the individual as a member or a?iliate or a specific criminal
enterprise or street gang by an individual who has provided reliable information to the
Department in the past and whose information can be independently corroborated.

e. the identification of the individual as a member or affiliate of a specific criminal
enterprise or street gang by another government agency or a federal, state, or local penal
institution.

a violation, arrest, charge, petition for delinquency, ?nding of delinquency, or
conviction where gang membership or participation is either an element of the offense or
documented in the complaint or court record as part of the criminal design. 

Recommendation 17: Formally update and publicly report clearly defined criteria for ?gang" and
"gang activity."

CPD Response #17: CPD concurs with Recommendation #17. The proposed Criminal
Enterprise Database policy codifies definitions from Illinois law, prohibits designations
based on a person's demographic status as a protected class, and the entire policy will be
made available to the public.

The draft Criminal Enterprise Database does establish criteria for determining gang membership or
af?liation, using established de?nitions set forth in the Illinois Compiled Statutes. Once a directive is ?nalized
and issued to CPD members, it is made publicly available under CPD's searchable policy directives as well.

The proposed criteria does not include being in a gang-designated area or around gang-designated individuals as
a suf?cient basis for a determination of gang membership or af?liation. With reference to CPD's current
General Order 602?04: Prohibition Regarding Racial Profiling and Other Bias Based Policing, the policy also
includes a disclaimer that gang af?liation cannot be based upon the person's religious or racial demographic as a
member of a protected class. Relevant portions of the proposed directive are cited below.

The proposed directive de?nes "Gang," "Street Gang Member," and "Criminal Activity" as follows:
From Section "Street Gang? as "Street gang? or "gang" or "organized gang? or "criminal street

gang" means any combination, confederation, alliance, network, conspiracy, understanding, or other
similar conjoining, in law or in fact, of three or more persons with an established hierarchy that,

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through its membership or through the agency of any member engages in a course or pattern of criminal
activity in accordance with the Illinois Street Gang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act (740 ILCS 147). 

From Section I WC) "Street gang member or "gang member means any person who actually and in
fact belongs to a gang and any person who knowingly acts in the capacity ofan agent for or accessory
to, or is legally accountable for, or voluntarily associates himself or herself with a course or pattern of
gang-related criminal activity, whether in a preparatory, executory, or coverup phase of any activity, or
who knowingly performs, aids, or abets any such activity in accordanCe with the Illinois Street Gang
Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act (740 ILCS I 4 7). 

From Section "Criminal Activity" means the commission, attempted commission, or solicitation,
in association with or with intent to promote criminal conduct by criminal enterprise or street gang
members, of two or more acts of the following offenses, at least one of which occurred within the last
?ve years: murder; drug induced homicide; kidnapping; forcible detention; aggravated assault?
discharging firearm; aggravated battery; heinous battery; aggravated battery with afirearm;

I aggravated battery of a child; aggravated battery of a senior citizen; intimidation; compelling
organization membership of persons; home invasion; aggravated criminal sexual assault; robbery;
armed robbery; burglary; residential burglary; criminal fortification of a residence or building; arson;
aggravated arson; possession of explosives or incendiary devices; unlawful use of weapons; unlawful
use or possession of weapons by felons or persons in the custody ofthe Department of Corrections;
aggravated discharge of a firearm; mob action?violence; bribery; armed violence; manufacture or
delivery of cannabis; cannabis trafficking; calculated criminal cannabis conspiracy and related
offenses; illegal manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance; controlled-substance trafficking;
calculated criminal drug conspiracy and related offenses. 

The proposed directive establishes the criteria for a determination of gang membership or af?liation as
follows, none of which include being in a gang-designated area or around gang-designated individuals:

From Section WE): ?Membership in or affiliation with a criminal enterprise database or street gang
must be substantiated by specific, documented, and reliable information received by the Department
within the lastfive years, and in accordance with the following:

(I) the individual 's own admission of membership or affiliation lawfully captured on
electronic or video recorded communications, such as bodyworn camera, in?car video
system recordings, electronically recorded interview, text messages communications,
social media communications, or a consensual overhear device; or

(2) two or more of the following:
a. an unrecorded or non-intercepted statement provided voluntarily by the individual, or
if a statement is made pursuant to a custodial interrogation, a statement provided by the
individual following a knowing, intelligent, and voluntary waiver of his or her

constitutional rights.

b. the wearing of distinctive emblems, tattoos, or similar markings indicative of a specific
criminal enterprise or street gang but only when such signals or symbols would not

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reasonably be expected to be displayed by any individual expect a member of that
specific criminal enterprise or street gang.

Note: Membership may not be established solely because an individual is wearing
specific items of clothing which are available for sale to the general public.

0. the use of 'signs or symbols indicative of a specific criminal enterprise or street gang
but only when such signals or symbols would not reasonably be expected to be displayed
by any individual except a member of that specific criminal enterprise or street gang.

d. the identification of the individual as a member or a?iliate or a specific criminal
enterprise or street gang by an individual who has provided reliable information to the
Department in the past and whose information can be independently corroborated.

e. the identification of the individual as a member or affiliate of a specific criminal
enterprise or street gang by another government agency or a federal, state, or local penal
institution.

f. a violation, arrest, charge, petition for delinquency, finding of delinquency, or
conviction where gang membership or partiapation is either an element of the o?znse or
documented in the complaint or court record as part of the criminal design. 

In making a determination of a person's gang status, the proposed directive includes the following
reminder for CPD members:

From Section V: "Determinations regarding an individual 's membership in or a?iliotion with a
criminal enterprise or street gang will not be based solely on an individual is race, gender,
religion, ethnicity, culture, socioeconomic status, or other protected classes consistent with G02-
04: Prohibition Regarding Racial Profiling and Other Bias Based Policing. 

Recommendation 18: Conduct regular, formal reviews of gang designations to evaluate continued
accuracy of the gang designation.

CPD Response #18: CPD concurs with Recommendation #18. The proposed Criminal
Enterprise Database directive contains a process to update and review gang information
for accuracy.

In its proposed directive, CPD has laid out a speci?c and collaborative process in order to ensure
ongoing accuracy of information in the Criminal Enterprise Database. During this process, CPD will remove
outdated and unreliable information from the Criminal Enterprise Database with input from gang investigations
experts and intelligence of?cers. To reiterate, CPD cannot modify or remove information from criminal or
investigative source records.

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in part:

Section IX of the proposed directive lays out this ongoing review process, with relevant sections stating

From Section IX (A (2) "District commanders will: annually, in coordination with the Gang
Investigation Division and other designated Department personnel, perform a gang audit in
accordance with GI 0-01-01 "Gang Audits, updating information for accuracy in the Criminal
Enterprise Database. 

From Section "The Deployment Operations Section will: ?nalize and update the
Criminal Enterprise Database: of all criminal street gangs and criminal enterprises identi?ed
during the district gang audit; upon successful appeal of gang membership or affiliation in the
Criminal Enterprise Database; or upon request of the Commander, Gang Investigation
Division, or a district commander. 

From Section (3): "The Director, Information Services Division, will: upon consultation
with the Commander, Deployment Operations Section, remove gang information for individuals
who have not committed a new qualijying criminal offense and have not had a documented
incident in furtherance of gang activity within the past five years. 

Recommendation 19: Develop and implement a formal means to regularly purge applicable gang
designations from all originating documents and visualization tools.

CPD Response #19: CPD partially concurs with Recommendation #19. The proposed
Criminal Enterprise Database directive contains a process to purge stagnant gang
information after ?ve years. However, CPD cannot modify original source documents that
are part of a past or ongoing criminal investigation.

CPD will purge a person's gang information from the Criminal Enterprise Database alter a ?ve year

I period without further criminal or gang related behavior. Section and Section reference the

i automatic purge of gang information after a ?ve-year period if the person is not arrested for a qualifying

offense or engaged in gang activity:

From Section "An individual is eligible for removal when he or she has not committed
any act in furtherance of gang activity and has not been arrested, charged, petitioned for
delinquency, found delinquent, or convicted of a quali?iing criminal offense within the past?ve
years. If an arrest, charge, petition for delinquency, ?nding of delinquency, or conviction was
part of the determination that led to the person ?s entry into the Criminal Enterprise Database,
this five-year period begins following the date of release or discharge from custody, probation,
supervision, incarceration, or parole for that o?ense, whichever is later. 

From Section (3): "The Director, Information Services Division, will: upon consultation
with the Commander, Deployment Operations Section, remove gang information for individuals

who have not committed a new quali?/ing criminal offense and have not had a documented
incident in furtherance ofgang activity within the past ?ve years. 

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As previously stated, CPD cannot alter, delete, or destroy historical criminal arrest or investigative records that
either have been or could become part of a court or administrative proceeding. Modifying or deleting past
source records to remove gang information could severely undermine the integrity of the discovery process, and
potentially open up CPD to violations.

For criminal investigative source records that are maintained, CPD members will receive a disclaimer
that these records are not to be used to determine gang membership or af?liation. Only the Criminal Enterprise
Database will contain updated, substantiated, and accurate gang designations.

From Section ?Individuals who meet the criteria for removal will have their information
removed ?om the Criminal Enterprise Database only. Historical records will be maintained in source
data systems, as appropriate, and subject to federal, state, and local laws. Department members and law
enforcement personnel will rely solely upon the Criminal Enterprise Database to determine an
individual '5 active gang a?iliation, as retained historical records may contain outdated or
unsubstantiated gang intelligence information. 

Recummendation 20: Formally require that every individual who received a gang designation
from CPD is noti?ed.

CPD Response #20: CPD partially concurs with Recommendation #20. CPD will take
several steps to inform the general public about how to access their individual gang
designations. These notifications will occur in-person, rather than through the mail.
Information will also be made available at district stations and online. Finally, CPD will
undertake efforts to create a system in which in-person noti?cation is provided to subjects,
informing them of the process to appeal a determination of gang membership or af?liation.

After careful deliberation, CPD determined that written noti?cation to all persons designated as gang
members is not safe or proper, and may actually create a greater risk of gang violence. Both for those
designated as gang members in the past and under the new policy moving forward, CPD would have serious
logistical issues accurately identifying a gang member or af?liate's correct address. As such, sending
noti?cation letters to individual addresses could serve to cause greater confusion and frustration between the
community and the police, and actually initiate more violence if the noti?cation letter is intercepted into the
wrong hands.

Instead, as part of its overall police reform efforts, CPD is currently working through a noti?cation
process to communicate certain rights or other procedures to individuals who interact with the police. CPD
intends to incorporate a noti?cation of gang designations into this process, and inform subjects in person that
they may have been identi?ed as a gang member or af?liate during the course of an investigation or
interaction. The noti?cation would inform the subject that he or she may have been identi?ed as a gang
member or af?liate, subject of course to review and approval under the criteria. Further, it will set forth the
process to appeal such a detem?nation and seek removal from the Criminal Enterprise Database.

CPD has also committed to a process that will allow individuals to determine whether they are
designated as a gang member or af?liate. lf identi?ed in the Criminal Enterprise Database, the person can then
challenge that determination. CPD will make information about this process available through its website, at

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local district stations, and allow members of the general public to submit email inquiries to obtain more
information. A fee is not required in order to access the person?s gang status.

From Section (1): "Any person may seek to access or appeal the status of his or her own
street gang or criminal enterprise membership or affiliation in the Criminal Enterprise
Database. A parent or legal guardian of a minor under the age of eighteen may make a request
for access or appeal on behalf of his or her child.

To access the status of gang membership or a?iliation in the Criminal Enterprise Database, a
person must: 
a. make a request at the Access and Review Unit, Records Division, located at Public
Safety Headquarters, 351 0 South Michigan Avenue, 1 st ?oor, Monday through Friday,
0800?1530 hours, excluding holidays;
b. complete the Criminal Enterprise Database Access form (CPD-3 L615) provided by
the Department; and
0. submit valid government identification. 

From Section "District commanders will: (5) make general information about the
access and removal process associated with the Criminal Enterprise Database available to the
general public at the district station. 

From Section "The Director, Information Services Division, will: (5 create an online
website that provides general information about the Department's Criminal Enterprise Database
and the process to access and remove a person?s gang membership or a?iliation status within the
Criminal Enterprise Database, and 6) create and monitor the
email address and establish protocol to respond to emails
from the general public with general information about how to access and remove a person's
gang membership or a?iliation status ?'om the Criminal Enterprise Database. 

Recommendation 21: Establish formal protections for juveniles.

CPD Response #21: CPD does not concur with Recommendation #21. However, CPD
recognizes that its current investigation process inherently has greater protections for
minors than adults.

For purposes of this speci?c policy, juveniles and adults are treated the same under the proposed
Criminal Enterprise Database directive. Pursuant to state law and provisions under the recently ?led consent
decree, additional legal protections already exist for juveniles throughout the investigation and arrest process,
particularly during interviews with police. For example, an of?cer must take immediate action to notify the
minor's parent or person responsible for the minor upon arrest. 705 ILCS 405/2-6; 405/5?405. If the minor is
arrested for a felony offense or any sex offense, following a waiver of simpli?ed Miranda rights tailored to
juveniles, a custodial interrogation cannot take place unless the interview with the juvenile is video recorded.
705 ILCS 5-401 For these felony investigations, the consent decree will also require CPD to go beyond
state law, and make all reasonable efforts to ensure a parent or guardian is also present for an interview of a
juvenile in custody. See "Consent Decree" Illinois v. Chicago, 

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In addition to the bodywom camera requirements for CPD of?cers who interact with members of the
public during investigations in the ?eld, CPD has determined that established protections and processes for
juveniles are suf?cient to ensure self-admissions made in the presence of police are voluntary and reliable.

Recommendation 22: Establish formal policies mandating that conversations or interviews with
law enforcement which may result in a gang designation be conducted in the individual's
preferred language.

CPD Response #22: CPD concurs with Recommendation #22, and notes that CPD
interactions with individuals of limited English pro?ciency are addressed in a separate

policy.

CPD agrees with this recommendation, and points out that CPD's process for obtaining a translator is
codi?ed in a separate policy. See Special Order 802-0} -05: Limited English Pro?ciency. In addition, the
consent decree also has a multitude of language access provisions related to interactions with limited English
pro?cient individuals. See "Consent Decree" Illinois v. Chicago, 17-cv-6260; 1I1I64-65. Under the consent
decree, CPD is not only going to update its current language access policies and procedures, but also appoint a
language access coordinator to ensure that limited English pro?cient individuals can effectively communicate

with CPD members.
Recommendation 23: Establish a formal appeal process.

CPD Response #23: CPD partially concurs with Recommendation #23. The proposed
Criminal Enterprise Database policy has a formal appeal process outlined; however, CPD
does not intend to turn over the supporting documentation or investigative records that
serve as the basis for a gang designation.

Within its proposed Criminal Enterprise Database directive, CPD has laid out a formal appeal process to
remove gang designations from the system. The appeal process is free of cost upon establishing the individual's
identity with valid identi?cation. CPD does not plan to turn over supporting documentation that may be part of
an investigation to the individual submitting an appeal, as this would be inappropriate particularly where a
criminal proceeding is or has taken place.

The relevant portions of the appeal process is set forth below:
From Section VII: "Criteriafor Removal from the Criminal Enterprise Database

(A) An individual is eligible for removal when he or she has not committed any act in
furtherance of gang activity and has not been arrested, charged, petitioned for delinquency,
found delinquent, or convicted of a qualijying criminal o?ense within the past five years. 0? an
arrest, charge, petition for delinquency, finding of delinquency, or conviction was part of the
determination that led to the person ?5 entry into the Criminal Enterprise Database, this five-year
period begins following the date of release or discharge ?rom custody, probation, supervision,
incarceration, or parole for that o?ense, whichever is later.

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(B) An individual can also have his or her information removed from the Criminal Enterprise
Database if the information is not substantiated by specific, documented, and reliable
information to establish membership or a?iliation in a criminal enterprise or street gang in
accordance with Item Vof this directive. 

From Section (2): "To appeal the status of gang membership or affiliation in the Criminal
Enterprise Database, a person must:
a. make a request at the Access and Review Unit, Records Division, located at
Public Safety Headquarters, 3510 South Michigan Avenue, 1 st ?oor, Monday
through Friday, 0800?1200 hours, excluding holidays;
b. complete the Criminal Enterprise Database Appeal form (CPD-31. 625)
provided by the Department;
NOTE: The requestor may also submit any supporting documentation or
references that he or she deems relevant for the Department '3
consideration.
0. submit valid government identification; and
NOTE: A minor '3 parent or legal guardian making a request on behalf of
a minor must provide legal documentation to veri?) that he or she is the
parent or legal guardian.
d. cooperate with a background investigation conducted by the Chicago Police
Department.

D. Upon receipt of the completed request ?om the Records Division, the Deployment Operations
Section, the Gang Investigation Division and the District Intelligence Officer of the affected
District will consult with the Office of Legal Affairs to determine if the criteria is met and the
information will be deleted from the Criminal Enterprise Database.

E. If the criteria is met, the Commander, Deployment Operations Section, will inform the
Director, Information Services Division, who will ensure the individual 's name, other identifiers,
and records indicating street gang or criminal enterprise membership or affiliation are removed
from the Criminal Enterprise Database.

NOTE: Individuals who meet the criteria for removal will have their information
removed from the Criminal Enterprise Database only. Historical records will be
maintained in source data systems, as appropriate, and subject to federal, state,
and local laws. Department members and law enforcement personnel will rely
solely upon the Criminal Enterprise Database to determine an individual 's active
gang a?iliation, as retained historical records may contain outdated or
unsubstantiated gang intelligence information.

F. Upon request to access or appeal the status in the Criminal Enterprise Database, an
individual who is not identified in the Criminal Enterprise Database or who has had his or her

information removed following a success?il appeal may request and obtain a letter from the
Department indicating his or her current status in the Criminal Enterprise Database. 

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Recommendation 24: Provide noti?cation to already designated gang members, and enable these
individuals to appeal their designations.

CPD Response #24: CPD partially concurs with Recommendation #24. CPD will take
several steps to inform the general public about how to access their individual gang
designations. Information will also be made available at district stations and online. The
proposed Criminal Enterprise Database policy also has a formal appeal process outlined;
however, CPD does not intend to turn over the supporting documentation or investigative
records that serve as the basis for a gang designation.

CPD incorporates its responses to Recommendations #20 and #23 above.

After careful deliberation, CPD determined that written noti?cation to all persons designated as gang
members is not safe or proper, and may actually create a greater risk of gang violence. Both for those
designated as gang members in the past and under the new policy moving forward, CPD would have serious
logistical issues accurately identifying a gang member or af?liate's correct address. As such, sending
noti?cation letters to individual addresses could serve to cause greater confusion and frustration between the
community and the police, and actually initiate more violence if the noti?cation letter is intercepted into the
wrong hands.

Instead, as part of its overall police reform efforts, CPD is currently working through a noti?cation
process to communicate certain rights or other procedures to individuals who interact with the police. CPD
intends to incorporate a noti?cation of gang designations into this process, and inform subjects in person that
they may have been identi?ed as a gang member or af?liate during the course of an investigation or
interaction. The noti?cation would inform the subject that he or she may have been identi?ed as a gang
member or af?liate, subject of course to review and approval under the criteria. Further, it will set forth the
process to appeal such a determination and seek removal from the Criminal Enterprise Database.

I CPD has also committed to a process that will allow individuals to determine whether they are

I designated as a gang member or af?liate. If identi?ed in the Criminal Enterprise Database, the person can then
challenge that determination. CPD will make information about this process available through its website, at
local district Stations, and allow members of the general public to submit email inquiries to obtain more
information. A fee is not required in order to access the person's gang status. .

From Section ?Any person may seek to access or appeal the status of his or her own street
gang or criminal enterprise membership or af?liation in the Criminal Enterprise Database. A parent or
legal guardian of a minor under the age of eighteen may make a request for access or appeal on behalf
of his or her child.

To access the status of gang membership or affiliation in the Criminal Enterprise Database, (.1 person
must:
a. make a request at the Access and Review Unit, Records Division, located at Public Safety
Headquarters, 3510 South Michigan Avenue, 1 st ?oor, Monday through Friday, 0800?1530
hours, excluding holidays;
b. complete the Criminal Enterprise Database Access form (CPD-31. 615) provided by
the Department; and

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c. submit valid government identification."

From Section IX (A (5) "District commanders will: (5) make general information about the access and
removal process associated with the Criminal Enterprise Database available to the general public at the
district station. 

From Section (D): "The Director, Information Services Division, will: (5) create an online website
that provides general information about the Department's Criminal Enterprise Database policy and the
process to access and remove a person?s gang membership or a?iliation status within the Criminal
Enterprise Database, and (6) create and monitor the email
address and establish a protocol to respond to emails from the general public with general information
about how to access and remove a person 's gang membership or a?iliation status from the Criminal
Enterprise Database. 

Additionally, within its proposed Criminal Enterprise Database directive, CPD has laid out a formal
appeal process to remove gang determinations from the system. The appeal process is free of cost upon
positively establishing the individual's identity with valid identi?cation. CPD does not plan to turn over
supporting documentation that may be part of an investigation to the individual submitting an appeal, as this
would be inappropriate particularly where a criminal proceeding is or has taken place.

The relevant portion of the appeal process is set forth below:

From Section "To appeal the status of gang membership or affiliation in the Criminal
Enterprise Database, a person must:
a. make a request at the Access and Review Unit, Records Division, located at
Public Safety Headquarters, 3510 South Michigan Avenue, I st floor, Monday
through Friday, 0800?1200 hours, excluding holidays;
b. complete the Criminal Enterprise Database Appeal form (CPD-31.625)
provided by the Department;

I NOTE: The requestor may also submit any supporting documentation or
references that he or she deems relevant for the Department ?s
consideration.

c. submit valid government identification; and
NOTE: A minor ?s parent or legal guardian making a request on behalf of
a minor must provide legal documentation to verify that he or she is the
parent or legal guardian.

d. cooperate with a background investigation conducted by the Chicago Police

Department.

D. Upon receipt of the completed request ?'om the Records Division, the Deployment Operations
Section, the Gang Investigation Division and the District Intelligence O?icer of the affected
District will consult with the Office of Legal Affairs to determine if the criteria is met and the
information will be deleted from the Criminal Enterprise Database.

E. If the criteria is met, the Commander, Deployment Operations Section, will inform the
Director, Information Services Division, who will ensure the individual ?s name, other identifiers,

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and records indicating street gang or criminal enterprise membership or affiliation are removed
from the Criminal Enterprise Database.

NOTE: Individuals who meet the criteria for removal will have their information
removed from the Criminal Enterprise Database only. Historical records will be
maintained in source data systems, as appropriate, and subject to federal, state,
and local laws. Department members and law enforcement personnel will rely
solely upon the Criminal Enterprise Database to determine an individual ?s active
gang affiliation, as retained historical records may contain outdated or
unsubstantiated gang intelligence information.

F. Upon request to access or appeal the status in the Criminal Enterprise Database, an
individual who is not identified in the Criminal Enterprise Database or who has had his or her
information removed following a successful appeal may request and obtain a letter from the
Department indicating his or her current status in the Criminal Enterprise Database. 

C. Police Legitimcy Community Involvement [Recommendations 25-261

CPD does not interpret these recommendations to apply its speci?c written policy on collecting and
managing gang information. Rather, recommendations 24-26 address outreach efforts and updates on the
policy and additional data outputs. As set forth above, CPD plans to open its proposed Criminal Enterprise
Database directive for a public comment period due to substantial public interest in this topic. CPD will take
public comments and proposed edits into consideration before issuing its ?nal policy.

Recommendation 25: Participate in a committee of stakeholders formed by the City to address
ongoing reforms.

CPD Response #25: CPD will open its proposed directive up for public comment.

As discussed previously, CPD has participated in various policy discussions and internal reforms that
are of substantial public interest over the past several years. Consistent with these prior efforts, the Chicago
Police Department does plan to submit its dra? directive for public comment, and will include community
feedback before ?nal issuance of the Criminal Enterprise Database policy. As part of its ongoing efforts to
grow community partnerships and public trust, CPD will notify its stakeholder partners throughout the City
about the public comment period to encourage meaningful participation and feedback. Additionally, CPD plans
to engage City Council members on the details of its draft policy to receive their input before final issuance as
well.

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Recommendation 26: Continue to build partnerships with community-based organizations to
foster collaborative solutions to gang?related violence.

CPD Response #26: CPD concurs with Recommendation #26. Building community
partnerships to problem solve and reduce violence is currently a benchmark of CPD's
Office of Community Policing.

Again, this is an ongoing focus within CPD's community policing strategy. Over the past few years, and
in coordination with a panel of national experts and community leaders, CPD created an Of?ce of Community
Policing under the purview of Superintendent Eddie Johnson. The cornerstone of the Of?ce of Community
Policing's mission has been to revitalize effective problem solving activities and reduce Violent crime while
building community trust. CPD wholeheartedly agrees with this recommendation and will continue to build its
violence reduction efforts in partnership with community-based organizations.

Recommendation 27: Regularly report on CPD's data collection, storage, sharing, and use of gang
data.

CPD Response #27: CPD partially concurs with Recommendation #27. CPD will publicly
report aggregate data within the Criminal Enterprise Database, but has not yet decided
what level of specificity is appropriate.

CPD is also currently in the process of enhancing its transparency, and has been regularly reporting
relevant data points, enforcement efforts, and crime statistics. CPD is currently discussing internally on how to
integrate progress updates and aggregate ?gures on the Criminal Enterprise Database. CPD will consider the
appropriate avenues to make aggregate data available as the new policy is implemented, ongoing audits are
conducted, and re?ned data becomes available in accordance with the new criteria and process. At this time,
CPD makes no commitment as to the categories of aggregate data it will produce.

D. To the City of Chicago (Recommendations 28-30!

CPD defers to the City of Chicago on decisions about its legislative agenda and community engagement
efforts. In line with the theme of several recommendations in the 01G report, any legislative initiative should
provide ample room for CPD to continue to modify, update, and improve its gang collection and management
practices moving forward.

8:22?
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Eddie T. John on
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APPENDIX K: DRAFT GENERAL ORDER 

 

Chicago Police Department General Order G10-01-O3

CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE DATABASE



 

 

 

 

 

 

ISSUE DATE 08 April 2019 EFFECTIVE DATE: I 08 April 2019
RESCINDS:
INDEX CATEGORY: Gang and Narcotic Abatement

I. PURPOSE

This directive introduces:

A. the Criminal Enterprise Database.

B. a revised criminal enterprise and gang af?liation identification criteria.

C. procedures for entering persons into the Criminal Enterprise Database.

D. responsibilities for reviewing, auditing, and purging listings from the Criminal Enterprise Database.

E. the Criminal Enterprise DatabaSe Access form (CPD-31.615) and the Criminal Enterprise Database

Appeal form 

ll. ILLINOIS COMPLIED STATUTES (ILCS):
Illinois Compiled Statutes, 740 ILCS 147 Illinois Street Gang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act.

740 ILCS 147:5(13) The General Assembly ?nds that urban, suburban, and rural communities,
neighborhoods and schools throughout the State are being terrorized and plundered by streetgangs. The
General Assembly ?nds that there are now several hundred streetgangs operating in Illinois, and that while
their terrorism is most widespread in urban areas, streetgangs are spreading into suburban and rural areas of
Illinois.

SCOPE

The purpose of the Criminal Enterprise Database is to collect and manage criminal and gang intelligence
information to prevent, detect, and investigate criminal activity.

IV. CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE DATABASE

A. The Criminal Enterprise Database is a CLEAR application used for the entry of information based on
an individual's membership in or af?liation with a criminal enterprise or street gang.

B. The Information Services Division will establish the Criminal Enterprise Database CLEAR application
for use by authorized Department members. The Information Services Division will initially gather all
existing Department gang-related information in conjunction with the appropriate Department
personnel to apply the criteria delineated in Item VI of this directive to all existing Department gang-
related information before entry in to the Criminal Enterprise Database.

C. Only Department members who have completed the new user and any required continuing education
training will have access to the Criminal Enterprise Database.

D. Upon supervisory approval, all information entered into the Criminal Enterprise Database will be
reviewed by the appropriate district intelligence of?cer and by the designated members of the Gang
Investigation Division and the Deployment Operations Section. The Deployment Operations Section
has ?nal authority to review, remove, and manage information within the Criminal Enterprise
Database, unless as otherwise delineated in Item ofthis directive.

V. DEFINITIONS

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A. Criminai Enterprise A group of individuals with an identified hierarchy or comparabie structure
engaged in a course or pattern of criminai activity.

8. Street (sang ?Street gang? or ?gang? or "organized gang? or ?criminai street gang? means anyr
combination; confederation, ailiance; network, conspiracy; understanding; or other simiiar conjoining;
in iaw or in fact, of three or more persons with an established hierarchy that; through its membership
or through the agency of any member engages in a course or pattern of criminal activity in
accordance with the Ellinois Street Gang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act (Wit) 

C. Street Gang Member ?Street gang member? or ?gang member? means any person who actuaiiy
and in tact beiongs to a gang and any person who knowingiy acts in the capacity of an agent for or
accessory to; or is legaiiy accountable tor; or voiuntariiy associates himself or herself with a course or
pattern of gangmrelated criminai activity; whether in a preparatory; executory; or coverwup phase of
any activity; or who knowingly performs; aids; or abets any such activity in accordance with the lliinois
Street Gang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act (74G ELCS 1-47),

D. Hierarchy m- an organized chain of command or leadership structure; whether format or intormai;
with an be interchangeabie.

   
 
 
 
 
 

iv belonging to a criminai enterprise or street gang by whatever means or

blishing a ciose connection as an accessory or associate with a criminal
knowingly promoting the criminal activity of the criminai enterprise or street
act or knowingiy tailing to take action which turthers the criminai;

  
 
   

of which occurred within the test five years: murder; drug
is detention; aggravated assaultmdischarging firearm;

 
     
 
 

 
  

induced homicid 
aggravated battery; heino
aggravated battery of a 

  

 
 
    

explosives or incendiary 
bv feions or persons in the custody it
firearm; mob action?vioience; bribed,r armed vi
cannabis trafficking; caicuiated crimina annabis on:
or delivery! of a controlled substa 
conspiracy and rotated offenses.

weapons; uniawfui use or possession of weapons
epartment of Corrections; aggravated discharge of a
manutacture or deiivery of cannabis;
nd related oftenses; illegai manufacture

 

 

 

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H. Quaii?fyihg Crimihat Offense any otfe so that inv threat of force against another
individual; the use or possession of a firearm or other deadiy we pon; am.i offense that requires
registration as a sex offender, a vioiation of an order of protection or no contact order; staiking; a
violation of the Controlied Substances Act or Cannabis Controi A 

  
 

VI. QREMINAL ENTERPRESE AND GANG IQENTEFIQ Obi CRITERIA

A. Criminai enterprises and street gangs wiil be identified: on the basis of specific; documented, and
reiiabie information, inciuding but not limited to:

analysis of crime pattern information;

observations by Department members;

1
2
3. witness interviews;
4 interviews of admitted criminai enterprise or street gang members; and
5

information received trom informants who have proven to be reiiabie and whose information
can be independently corroborated.

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E. Iviembership in or with a criminai enterprise or street gang must be substantiated by
specitic, documented= and reiiabie information received by the Department within the past five years=
and in accordance with the toiiovving:

The individual?s own admission of membership or affiliation on lawfullv captured eiectronic or
video recorded communications= such as camera: inwcar video system recordings=
electronicaliv recorded interview: eiectronic communications, or a consensuai overhear
device; or

2? Two or more of the foiiovving:

a. an unrecorded or non?intercepted statement provided voluntarily by the individuai: or
if a statement is made pursuant to a custodial interrogation, a statement provided by
the individuai foilovving a Knowing= and voiuntarv waiver of his or her
constitutionai rights.

to. the earing of distinctive emblems] tattoos, or simiiar markings indicative of a specific
i enterprise or street gang; but only when such emblems; tattoos, or similar
.in would not reasonably be expected to be displayed by any individuai except

  
 
 
  
  

the identifica ii? of"
enterprise or street :3
penal institution.

   

 

    
   
 

 

 

 

f. a violation, arrest:

ation is either an eiernent oi the
ecord as part of the criminal design
NETE: Determinations regarding an individual members 'n or affiliation with a criminai
enterprise or street gang not be based soleiv an individuai?s race: gender,
religion, ethnicity, cuiture: socioeconomic st .- other protected ciasses
consistent with {302434 ?Erohitiiticn Rena and ether Eias

East-2d Poiicingf'

VIE. PROCEDURES FER ENTERING THE ENTERPRISE BATABASE

Foliowing the positive identification of a person with membership in or with a criminai enterprise or
street gang:

A. Department members will:
ensure information and ali supporting documentation is entered into the CLEAR Criminal
Enterprise Database accurateiv.
2. Eocate and make notation of any visibie scars, marks, or tattoos, it appiicable.
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3. ensure evidentiary electronic media, inciuding body?worn camera and in?car video system
recordings, is property attached or saved, it applicabie.
4. notify a supervisor that the data entry is compiete and avaiiabie for review.
B. Upon receiving notification of data entry, the reviewing supervisor will:
1. ensure that the data entry is in compiiance with item Vi and item ViiwA of this directive; and
2. approve data entry that is in compiiance with item ?v?i and item ?v?ll?A of this directive and

forward the data entry to the appropriate district inteiligence officer and designated members
of the Gang investigation Division for review.

newness: an information entered into the Criminai Enterprise Database wiil be reviewed and
managed by the Deployment Speraticns Section.

VIEE. CRETERIA FOR REMOV

  
 
 

THE ENTERPRISE QATABASE

 
  
  

A.
ienterprise-ra ted activity or has not been arrested, charged, petitioned for deiinduency,
delinquent, or co ted ot a qualifying criminai oftense within the past tive years. it an arrest,
B. ormation removed from the Criminai Enterprise Database if

 
   
  
  
 

specific, documented, and reliabie information to establish

 

EX. ACGESS AND REMOVAL OF (3 MSNAL EN DATAEASE 

 

A. Any person may obtain genierai into 
provided on the Department's 


heat the access and removal process through a link
or by ending a general inquiry emaii to

    
  

     

  

B. An individual who is identified in the nai abase may appeal and seek removal of
his or her information to the designatedE Lini of this directive on the foilowing
grounds: 

i. the information is not substantiated by speci ic, docume I and reiiapie information to

 

estabiish membership or affiliation in a criminal enterprise, et gang in accordance with

item of this directive; or

 

    

2. the individual has not committed an act in furthera fgang oricriminal?enterprise?reiated
activity or been arrested, charged, petitioned for duency, found delinquent, or convicted
of a quaiifying criminal offense within the past five years, and the information is eligibie for
removal consistent with item \fiil cfthis directive.

0. Any person may seek to access or appeai the status of his or her own street gang or criminal
enterprise membership or in the Criminal Enterprise Database. A parent or iegal guardian of
a minor under the age of eighteen may make a request for access or appeal on pehait of his or her

child.
1. To access the status of enterprise membership or affiliation in the Criminal
Enterprise Database, a person must:
a. mate a request at the Access and Review Unit, Records Division, iocated at Pubiic
Safety Headquarters, 3510 South Michigan Avenue, 1st fioor, ivlonday through
Friday, 08804530 hours, excluding holidays;
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b. complete the Criminai Enterprise Database Access form provided by
the Department; and

c. submit vaiid government identification.
EttOt?E: A miner?s parent or legai guardian matting a request on behalf of a

minor must provide iegai documentation to veritv that he or she is
the parent or least guardian

2, To appeal the status of enterprise membership or in the Criminal
Enterprise Database, a person must:

a. matte a request at the Access and Review Unit, Records Division, iocated at Eubiic
Safety Headquarters, 3510 South Michigan Avenue, 1st tioor, ivlonday through
Friday, 08004200 hours, excluding holidays;

b. plete the Criminai Enterprise Database Appeal form provided by
partment;

     

  
   
 
    
     
 
 
    

 

The requester may also submit any supporting documentation or
references that he or she deems reievant for the Department?s
consideration.

ent identification; and

he Records Division, the Depioyment Operations
he district inteiligence officer of the affected district Wiil
criteria is met and the information be

Upon receipt of the com-able
Section, the Gang Investigation Divis
consult with the Office of Legal Aftairs?
deieted from the Criminal Enterprise Da

 

 

NGTE: The Office of Legai Aspire
been met for removai
Enterprise Database.

 

 

if the criteria is met, the Commander, Deployment Operation
Information Services Division, who ensure the individual'
indicating street gang or criminai enterprise membership 0
Enterprise Database,

 

identifiers, and records
ration are removed from the Criminal

 

    



  

NQTE: individuals who meet the criteria tor removat have their information removed
from the Criminai Enterprise {Database only. Historical records \iviil be maintained in
source data systems, as appropriate, and subject to federal, state, and iocai laws.
Department members and tavv enforcement personnel will reiy soleiy upon the
Criminal Enterprise Database to determine an individuai's active gang as
retained historicai records may! contain outdated or unsubstantiated gang
information

Upon request to access or appeal the status in the Criminal Enterprise Database, an individuai who is
not identified in the Criminai Enterprise Database or who has had his or her information removed
fotiowing a successful appeai may request and obtain a ietter from the Department indicating his or
her current status in the Criminat Enterprise Database,

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X. 
A. District commanders 
1. ensure the district intelligence ctticer reviews:

a. data entered into the Criminal Enterprise Database and that the determination of a
persons gang/criminai enterprise membership er attiliation is substantiated by
specific, documented, and reiiabie information consistent with item Vin of this
directive; and

b. requests to appeal the status of enterprise membership er in
the Criminal Enterprise Database consistent with item of this directive.

2. annuaiiy, in coordination with the Gang investigation Division and other designated

Department persennei, perform a gang audit in accerdance with ?Gang Audits,?
updating,? rmation tor accuracy in the Criminal Enterprise Database.

 

rnmanrier, Gang investigation Division, if appropriate, pefere requesting to

 
   
     
  
     
    

ander, Depioyment Operations Section, to review requests to remove
from the Criminal Enterprise Database.

 

 

E3.
Enterprise Database
C. The Depioyment Operations Section
l. tinaiize and update the Criminai Enterprise 
a. ct criminai street gangs and criminal enterprises ntified during the district gang
audn; .
b. Lipen successtui appeal of gang/criminai en rship or affiliation in the
Criminal Enterprise Database; or
c. upon request at the Commander, ang investigation Division, or a district
commander.
2. publish in the Deitya Bulletin any newiy identified street gangs or criminal enterprises or when
a criminai street gang or criminal enterprise has been eiiminated from "active? status.
3. inform the Director, information Services Division, when:
a. it is appropriate te remove eiigiple individuais frem the Criminai Enterprise Database;
and
b. when a criminai street gang or criminal enterprise has been eiiminateci frem ?active?
status.
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D. The Director, information Services Division, will:

i. maintain the Criminai Enterprise Database.
perform a review and purge of Eistirigs in the Criminai Enterprise Database every five years.

upon consuitation with the Commander, Deployment Operations Section, remove information
for individuais who have not committed a new criminal offense or have not had a
documented incident in furtherance of gang or criminalwehterprisewreiateo activity within the
past five years.

4. remove eligible information when requested by the Commander, Depioyment Operations
Section.

5. create an oniine website that provides generaf information to the public about:
a. the Department?s Criminai Enterprise Database poiicv; and
p. rocess to access and remove a person?s enterprise membership

  

iliation status within the Criminal Enterprise Database.

 

6. and or the emaii address and establish a
retocol to recap to emaits from the general pubiic with generat information about how to
a person's enterprise membership or affiliation status from

   
  
   
 
   
 

 

 

 

 

XL
A. The information
Criminai Enterp
E3.
2. Members must compiete the
or approve information in the
USE
The Criminai Enterprise Database is availabl
acting in furtherance ot a legitimate iaw entorce?
party for empioyment, education, licensing, or housing purposes
REMINDER: it is the policy of the Chicago Police Department the suant to tederai law, the
enforcement of immigration iavv generaiiy rests with nment and not with the
state or iocai police. Department members con use to foilovv the procedures outiined in
$054403 ?Respondind to Incidents Envolirin G. enship ?tatast? including compliance
with the provisions ofthe City of Chicago?s Weioorning City Ordinance.
XIEE. RECORD RETENTSON
Any record maintained in the Criminal Enterprise Database must comply with iocal, state, and federal iaw.
The Commander, Youth Investigations Division, ensure juvenite records that are part of the Criminal
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Enterprise Detabaee are retained arid expunged in with ?ne Juveniie Court Act and any appIiCabEe
Eecei, e?ate, 0r federal iew.

Eddie T. Johnson
Superintendent of Police

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