Safety and Justice
April 11, 2025
Civic Consulting Alliance staff are leading a year-long project to operationalize community policing across the Chicago Police Department (CPD) so that community policing is synonymous with policing in Chicago.
This multi-phase project* will develop a clear department-wide vision that integrates community ...
March 7, 2024
Civic Consulting Alliance’s pro bono partners Kearney and Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila provided specialized expertise in legal analysis, labor modeling, and implementation planning that’s helping the City double the geographic reach of its promising mental health crisis response program.
March 14, 2023
Gun violence continues to be a public health crisis throughout America, and a top priority for many Chicagoans who are pressing local governments to do more to increase public safety. As we’ve reported in the past, the City, County, and ...
July 30, 2022
In July 2021, Chicago’s City Council passed the Empowering Communities for Public Safety (ECPS) ordinance. This landmark ordinance creates two bodies: a new city agency called the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability (CCPSA), with power to advance systemic ...
July 30, 2022
Since 2019, CPD has made progress on specific consent decree mandates. However, there has not yet been intentional focus on the complementary cultural change that is needed to realize the spirit of reform. Building on our prior work to support ...
July 23, 2022
Reducing gun violence is a critical priority for the City of Chicago, Cook County, and the State of Illinois. Significant new funding is available to all three entities via the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), creating an opportunity to ...
March 24, 2022
In August 2021, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced the creation of the Community Safety Coordination Center (CSCC), a first-of-its-kind, multi-agency coordination center to advance a whole of government, community-driven approach to violence prevention and reduction for the City of Chicago.
The CSCC ...
September 24, 2021
As we head into the fall, we close a second consecutive summer with a dramatic rise in gun violence in Chicago. Gun violence is an issue of paramount importance to our collective well-being and to our region’s prosperity—it is a ...
March 30, 2021
A February 2020 report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and the 2019 consent decree found that Chicago’s juvenile justice system is not achieving its goal of reducing youth recidivism, and may re-traumatize youth or increase their likelihood ...
March 30, 2021
Since 2018, Civic Consulting Alliance has undertaken multiple projects to help the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) prepare for and respond to a court-monitored consent decree, which mandates reforms across a wide range of areas. ...