On January 13, 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice published the Investigation of the Chicago Police Department.1 The report focused heavily on the need for the Chicago, Illinois, Police Department (CPD) to improve not only the way policing in Chicago is conducted, but also the way policing is reported and evaluated. The CPD responded to this report and the findings of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Police Accountability Task Force by releasing Next Steps for Reform, a framework for addressing several high-priority recommendations.2 The agency immediately started work to implement the promised reforms; aided by staff members from the nonprofit organization Civic Consulting Alliance, the agency began to break both reports into manageable projects where specific individuals were held accountable for tasks and outcomes.
