Office of the City Clerk - Record #: R2017-910

• Record #: R2017-910
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Failed to Pass
• Intro date: 11/8/2017
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Public Safety
• Title: Call for Chicago Police Department to reactivate former 13th District Police Station in manner that appropriately serves surrounding neighborhood
• Sponsors: Moreno, Proco Joe, Hopkins, Brian
• Topic: CITY DEPARTMENTS/AGENCIES - Police
• Related files: R2019-362

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
11/8/2017	60121	City Council	Referred

Public Safety

RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, The Chicago Police Department (CPD) closed the old 13^th District Police Station at 927 North Wood in December 2012; and

WHEREAS, Wicker Park and Bucktown benefited from a greater police presence and more officers when this station was open; and

WHEREAS, The Chicago Police Department is revising its community policing strategy and created a Community Policing Advisory Panel (CPAP); and

WHEREAS, the Community Policing Advisory Panel (CPAP) recommended the alignment of Department staffing and resources with a new community policing strategy; and

WHEREAS, Chicago Police Department Superintendent Eddie T. Johnson expressed a willingness to explore a satellite function for the old 13^th District Police Station at 927 North Wood; and

WHEREAS, The station currently is utilized by the Cook County Sheriff's Department; and

WHEREAS, Public safety would be enhanced were the station to re-open as part of a new community policing strategy; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED, That we, the Mayor and the members of the City Council of the City of Chicago, gathered here this 8^th day of November, 2017, call on the Chicago Police Department to re-activate the former 13^th District Police Station in a manner that more appropriately serves the surrounding neighborhood.

BRIAN HOPKINS

Alderman, 1 Ward

Alderman, 2^na Ward