The Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) will begin to address aging cases, starting July 1.
Today’s CCPSA meeting will be held both in-person at the Kehrein Center for the Arts and over Facebook stream.
Agenda and livestream address: https://t.co/F45O5ItHrv
Trying to access the Facebook link from the above meeting notice but getting “Page Isn’t Available” so far.
In now. https://www.facebook.com/ChicagoCCPSA/videos/1380636705844590
Can someone rotate the video please. https://t.co/lzdIPVd6rD
The meeting is called to order, and a roll call establishes a quorum.
Public comment is next. https://t.co/Y7Z0u0plj4
Submit your comments to CommunityCommissionPublicComment@cityofchicago.org.
In-person commenters signed up earlier today.
- A member of the non-citizen advisory council talks about a recent move by Gov Pritzker which will leave some undocumented immigrants without benefits starting July 1. They urge the governor to reconsider this action.
- Speaker talks about recent FOIA request to CPD regarding a list of banned organized groups, but CPD apparently said they couldn’t find such a list.
- 17th district speaker talks about conference in community policing and asks for funding.
Next order of business is regarding filling a vacancy on District Council 001.
30-day application window. Interviews were conducted, and CCPSA is ready to propose their candidate to the Mayor. The motion passes.
Next, affirmation of District Council position assignments. Motion carries. Positions are officially affirmed 30 days after initial decisions.
Next, CPD Supt search updates:
- Community input is critical
- 3 candidates to the mayor
- Mayor choose 1 of 3 or asks for more candidates
- See https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/ccpsa.html for more
CCPSA discusses surveys that went out to CPD personnel and sgt/lt engagement sessions.
There have been multiple interviews conducted with top Supt candidates. Top three candidates presented to the mayor will be decided in a closed meeting. Nomitations are due July 14. Selection is due Aug 13 or mayor can reject (and say why) the candidates.
If the Mayor rejects CCPSA’s three Supt candidates, they must select three new ones.
CPD goals update:
- Pursuing Supt goals even through the turnover
- Received officer wellness strategy from CPD
- CPD says group of officers close to completing U of C program
- CPD says they have distributed guidelines regarding treatment of migrants
Updates regarding draft selection policies for COPA and Police Board:
- Received public input and still accepting
- July 27th target adoption
- Draft policies are available on CCPSA website
CCPSA discusses the Police Board application process: https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/ccpsa/supp_info/serving-on-the-police-board.html.
Applications are actively being accepted. Apply now!
CCPSA says to District Council members that they will gladly attend their DC meetings to talk more about the Police Board application process.
Police Board goals update:
- 11 goals, multiple regarding consent decree
- Training to help PB members to understand perspective of community members who have interactions with police https://t.co/CeMi0XwOsU
Police Board says they’ve been working on improving processing tempo for their cases (goal 5).
Police Board says they are meeting goals regarding posting information on meeting attendance. Police Board website has FOIA portal requests and response status, decisions, and charges against officers.
Caproni says the Police Board senses the Law Department is facing a staffing shortage, and that is delaying case processing. https://t.co/29PKF2BSxL
CCPSA says COPA has been meeting or exceeding their set goals. Full report is coming and will be available on their website.
COPA Chief Administrator Andrea Kersten says that COPA used to lack community trust. Tremendous strides have been made in last 6 years.
Kersten says focus of improvement is processing timeliness. https://t.co/1zuJ6xEaMm
July 17 - COPA will launch 2023 timeliness initiative to address aging cases.
- ~ 1400 open cases.
- Will look at cases older than 2 years.
- Oldest case is 4 years.
- Past practice is highly relevant
- COPA says timeliness is significant hindrance to disciplinary action
Kersten says every case deserves swift resolution and introduces the unit that will be working on the timeliness initiative. No officer involved shooting will be included in this process (among other exceptions such as Rule 14 cases).
Kersten says this process can help COPA develop a better sense of case priority.
Kersten says average case lifetime is 2 years. The goal is for case time ceiling to be 2 years.
COPA will publish a public dashboard with data from cases considered in the timeliness initiative.
Beth Brown gives a shout-out to CPD for their assistance securing the Pride Parade over the weekend.
Next meeting: Thurs, July 27. Check CCPSA website for details.
Meeting adjourns at 8:27pm.
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