[in person] 3rd Police District Council - Woodlawn/Park Manor/South Shore

Expected attendees are council members Kenya Franklin (Chair) and Janice Jones (Community Engagement). In addition to guest speaker Alexander Perez (Community Engagement Member of the 2nd Police District Council).

The agenda for today’s meeting can be found here.

wwhttps://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/ccpsa/district-council-agendas/dc-003/notices-and-agendas/2025/Updted-Meeting-Agenda-2025-003-06-27%20(1).pdf

We’re kicking off the meeting now!

Kenya Franklin and Janice Jones are both present (creating a forum).

April minutes were approved. The May meeting was cancelled.

There is a town hall with public comment on Aug 29 at the Gary comer youth center at 6pm. Topics include federal funding and immigrant support. This town hall will replace the August meeting.

Community Engagement update: The council will be starting community listening sessions throughout the 3rd district.

Vote for Ms. Franklin to be the interim nominating committee

Alex is introducing the workforce allocation study and is giving an overview of the program, prepared with handouts

This study addresses current challenges of lack of cohesive vision for community policing and an unclear definition of community policing

So far there are 4 reports that have been published since the start of the study. Those reports can be found here

https://www.chicagopolice.org/community-policing/community-engagement-project/

The care program (for mental health related calls) only operates in 7 communities on Monday-Friday, according to Mr. Perez

Mr.Perez notes that community members want to see more CPD officers walking the beat and being more involved in the community outside of just responding to emergencies

Mr Perez provided a police envalentonado worksheet that gets community member feedback, allowing attendees to submit them to their local police council

Regarding the care program: it’s not certain but it has a team of 4-5, that now does not include a law enforcement officer as of roughly 4 months ago

Ms. Franklin thinks they should continue doing a blended model (mental health professional with a police officer) while Ms. Jones thinks this current make up makes more sense as it frees up more officers for the calls they’re more need for

According to the study it’s been found that CPD may not need to be involved in parking violation enforcement, moving the enforcement to a more civilian role

There are 3 pillars that came out of the preliminary conversations of the study: Heartset, Mindset, and Skillset

These pillars will guide the CPD

It’s been noted that the community survey’s original deadline was today (June 27th), but Mr. Perez said he’ll get an extension on the deadline

A community member (an IT professional) is curious how the community engagement questions will actually be studied and the data aggregated, showing skepticism on if CPD will even be able to analyze the data

In terms of the council Mr. Perez CCPSA says there’s a working group that studies that data on the Council’s end. However, he can’t speak to CPD

The community member is still skeptical that CCPSA will be able effectively collect and analyze the data

The community member would like to see a relational database, ideally public, to make the data more accessible. This database should have been in place before the study began

Mr. Perez disagrees with the community member because the CCPSA is a new body. However, the community member pushes back saying with the CCPSA is a new body, the issue about not having a database is an old problem.

The community member is also skeptical about the 3 pillars mentioned above and whether CPD and its officers had the capacity to change to that degree

“what are they going to do to decondition these people (officers) and recondition them?”
- community member

Mr. Perez believes that CCPSA and community members will bring about the change noting that they had to fight with CPD to be apart of the study

Ms. Franklin is attesting to the fact that the working groups within CCPSA are putting in the work and hours to go through and analyze the data

They put together a two page recommendation based on results from the study

Regarding the listening sessions: they are not fully formalized but tailored to the areas.

It’s unclear how the members will be invited

The same community member worries that without a clear way to invite community members, it will become exclusive

Next regular meeting of will be the last Friday of July.

The 3rd Police District Council meeting is officially adjourned at 6:56