Civilian Office of Police Accountability 2020 Annual Report
January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
February 16, 2021
CONTENTS
MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR|910|VISION, MISSION & VALUES|910|INTRODUCTION|910|OPERATIONAL UPDATES|910|BUDGET & PERSONNEL 14
TRAINING & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 15
INVESTIGATIVE DATA ANALYSIS 17
METHODOLOGY 17
INTAKE 17
PENDING INVESTIGATIONS 21
OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTINGS (OIS) 23
CONCLUDED INVESTIGATIONS 24
ADDITIONAL DATA REPORTING 29
TRANSPARENCY EFFORTS 29
REFERRALS ." 31
COMPLAINTS PER MEMBER 32
MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR
To Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, Chairman of the Chicago City Council Committee on Public Safety, People of Chicago, and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois:
Please find attached the public Annual Report of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) for the Year 2020, which is submitted pursuant to MCC ยง 2-78-150 and the Consent Decree resulting from State of Illinois v. City of Chicago (Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division Case No. 17-cv-6260).
Three years have passed since COPA launched with the monumental responsibility of receiving and reviewing all misconduct complaints, investigating those most egregious in nature as well as all firearm discharges and certain other matters involving members of the Chicago Police Department. Leaning on our core values of Integrity, Transparency, Independence and Timeliness, we are building an agency worthy of trust and confidence by the people of this great City. COPA has relied on sound investigative principles to inform our findings and recommendations. We have engaged and been informed by the community in an honest, responsive, and transparent manner, and most recently, we launched the Policy Research and Analysis Division (PRAD) to commence qualitative and quantitative reviews of our records to offer opportunities in which the Chicago Police Departmen...
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