Chicago Police Department

"Chicago PD" and "Chicago P.D." redirect here. For the TV series, see Chicago P.D. (TV series).

Chicago Police Department
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Common nameChicago P.D.
AbbreviationCPD
MottoWe Serve and Protect
Agency overview
FormedDecember 20, 1835; 188 years ago (1835-12-20)
Employees13,086 (2020)[1]
Annual budget$1.7 billion (2020)[1]
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdictionChicago, Illinois, U.S.
Jurisdictional area
Size237 sq mi (610 km2)
Population2,746,388 (2020)
Legal jurisdictionAs per operations jurisdiction
Governing bodyChicago City Council
General nature
Operational structure
Headquarters3510 S. Michigan Ave
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Police officers11,900 (2022)[1]
Civilian employees948 (2020)[1]
Mayor of Chicago responsible
Agency executive
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[2]
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][9] In 2017, the United States Department of Justice criticized the department for poor training, lack of oversight, and repeated incidents of excessive force.[10]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Police Districts". Chicago Police Department. Retrieved January 31, 2023.
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ "'The bad guys already know:' CPD staffing shortages affect public safety". WGNTV, Dana Rebik and Eli Ong, 13 December 2022.
  5. ^ "Chicago Police Department - History". chicagopolice.org. n.d. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved 2015-02-28.
  6. ^ Berlin, Mark S. (2024). "Chicago Police Torture and the Limits of Human Rights Enforcement in Liberal Democracies". Perspectives on Politics. doi:10.1017/S1537592724001385. ISSN 1537-5927.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "Justice report rips Chicago police for excessive force, lax discipline, bad training". Chicago Tribune. January 13, 2017.