COPA Adds More Transparency with Police Complaint Data
by Tom Schenk Jr. (Guest Blogger) Chief Data Officer for the City of Chicago The newly-formed Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) published detailed complaint data on the City of Chicago Data Portal. The new datasets include the nature of the complaint, the time of the complaint, status and any findings as a result of …
On this day in history….
On October 5, 2016, the City Council passed an ordinance that created Chicago’s newest agency, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) after months of public outcry over what was largely seen as an ineffective police accountability infrastructure. From that day forward, the leadership of COPA set out to create a best-in-class civilian oversight agency …
One big step for city government… and a giant leap for police accountability.
I am so excited today! This milestone has been over a year in the making. Our leadership team started working on plans for building the new agency as soon as the Police Accountability Task Force recommended, and Mayor Emanuel agreed, that the City needed to create a completely new civilian oversight agency in order to …