Chicago Police Department

Chicago Police Department
Chicago Police Department
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Common name	Chicago P.D.
Abbreviation	CPD
Motto	We Serve and Protect
Agency overview
Formed	December 20, 1835
Employees	13,086 (2020)
Annual budget	$1.7 billion (2020)
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
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Size	237 sq mi (610 km2)
Population	2,746,388 (2020)
Legal jurisdiction	As per operations jurisdiction
Governing body	Chicago City Council
General nature	Local civilian police;
Operational structure
Headquarters	3510 S. Michigan Ave; Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Police officers	11,900 (2022)
Civilian employees	948 (2020)
Mayor of Chicago responsible	Brandon Johnson;
Agency executive	Larry Snelling, Superintendent;
Bureaus	6 Bureau of Patrol; Bureau of Detectives; Bureau of Organized Crime; Bureau of Organizational Development; Bureau of Technical Services; Bureau of Internal Affairs;
Facilities
Districts	22 001: Central; 002: Wentworth; 003: Grand Crossing; 004: South Chicago; 005: Calumet; 006: Gresham; 007: Englewood; 008: Chicago Lawn; 009: Deering; 010: Ogden; 011: Harrison; 012: Near West; 014: Shakespeare; 015: Austin; 016: Jefferson Park; 017: Albany Park; 018: Near North; 019: Town Hall; 020: Lincoln; 022: Morgan Park; 024: Rogers Park; 025: Grand Central;
Website
	home.chicagopolice.org

The Chicago Police Department (CPD) is the primary law enforcement agency of the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, under the jurisdiction of the Chicago City Council. It is the second-largest municipal police department in the United States, behind the New York City Police Department.^[3] As of 2022 CPD had 11,710 sworn officers on duty,^[4] and in 2020 had over 948 other employees.^[1] Tracing its roots to 1835,^[5] the Chicago Police Department is one of the oldest modern police departments in the world.

The Chicago Police Department has both a past & recent-present history of police brutality, racial profiling, misconduct and corruption, and at one point, tortured multiple people in custody in the 1980s.^[6]^[7]^[8] In 2017, the United States Department of Justice criticized the department for poor training, lack of oversight, and repeated incidents of excessive force.^[9]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Sullivan, Carl; Baranauckas, Carla (June 26, 2020). "Here's how much money goes to police departments in largest cities across the U.S." USA Today. Archived from the original on July 14, 2020.
^ "Police Districts". Chicago Police Department. Retrieved January 31, 2023.
^ 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, by Brian A. Reaves, US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, July 2011
^ "'The bad guys already know:' CPD staffing shortages affect public safety". WGNTV, Dana Rebik and Eli Ong, 13 December 2022.
^ "Chicago Police Department - History". chicagopolice.org. n.d. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved 2015-02-28.
^ Ralph, Laurence (2020). The Torture Letters. University of Chicago Press. doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226650128.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-226-65012-8. S2CID 166340526.
^ Balto, Simon (2019). Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power. University of North Carolina Press. doi:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469649597.001.0001. ISBN 9781469649597. S2CID 242994510.
^ Ralph, Laurence (2020). "Torture Without Torturers: Violence and Racialization in Black Chicago". Current Anthropology. 61 (S21): S87–S96. doi:10.1086/705574. ISSN 0011-3204. S2CID 204377074.
^ "Justice report rips Chicago police for excessive force, lax discipline, bad training". Chicago Tribune. January 13, 2017.