Chicago Police Department

April 17, 2025 The Chicago Police Department’s Forensic Firearms Lab was honored this week for its commitment to enhancing public safety through advanced forensic technology. The lab processed more than 20,000 National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN) acquisitions in 2024. LeadsOnline, which manufactures and maintains the equipment and programming used to enter crime scene evidence […] Full Story

April 11, 2025 The Chicago Police Department (CPD) is continuing to make significant progress in its consent decree compliance efforts, as evidenced by a nearly double digit increase in operational compliance. During IMR-11, operational compliance rose to 16%, secondary compliance rose to 55% and preliminary compliance rose to 93%. “This increase in compliance represents the […] Full Story

The Chicago Police Department has released its IMR-11 Status Report, which covers the Department’s progress between July 1, 2024 and December 24, 2024. Throughout this time, CPD continued to implement reforms focused on building trust within the community, enhancing accountability and improving operational effectiveness.   During IMR-11, CPD was also focused on preparing for the 2024 […] Full Story

April 4, 2025 The Chicago Police Department’s Major Auto Theft Investigations (CMATI) Unit in the Bureau of Detectives recovered 11 long guns, five handguns and numerous rifle and pistol rounds from a storage facility on April 3, 2025. This recovery highlights the partnerships our officers have built within the business community.  An employee of a […] Full Story

March 31, 2025 Accountability is fundamental to the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD) reform efforts. Bureau of Internal Affairs (BIA) investigators and supervisors across CPD play an important role in ensuring misconduct allegations are handled in accordance with policy. Accountability Sergeants, who are responsible for investigating misconduct complaints in their assigned district or unit, and BIA […] Full Story

March 25, 2025 Input from community members across the city is vital to the Chicago Police Department’s policy and training development. To ensure feedback from Chicagoans citywide is reflected in the development process, CPD is working to standardize these engagement efforts. Through March 31, 2025, the public can review the full Community Engagement in Policy […] Full Story

March 13, 2025 The Chicago Police Department’s Robbery Task Force has secured charges against two offenders responsible for a citywide robbery pattern that occurred across four months in 2024. A 19-year-old male offender has been charged with 11 felony counts of armed robbery with a firearm and a 21-year-old offender has been charged with six […] Full Story

March 10, 2025 25th District officers and Area Five detectives took a convicted felon into custody on March 5, 2025, for a string of burglaries to a storage facility in the Montclare neighborhood. The 2506 mission team worked diligently alongside Property Crimes detectives to identify and locate a 40-year-old male offender who was responsible for […] Full Story

This March, in honor of Women’s History Month, the Chicago Police Department celebrates the trailblazing women of the past 132 years — from the first woman in Chicago granted police powers in 1893, to the thousands of women who serve in both sworn and non-sworn roles within our organization today. We are proud to highlight […] Full Story

February 11, 2025 CPD partners with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and encourages everyone in our community to use the various resources and educational programs to educate children on internet safety.  Please see the link(s) below: NCMEC: https://www.missingkids.org/home NCMEC Netsmartz: https://www.missingkids.org/netsmartz/home Cloud Quest- an interactive online safety adventure! Built as an […] Full Story