"Efficiency" Study
Two years for this study to be released....and it covers things we've been advocating for twenty years:
A much-anticipated study on Chicago police staffing urges more hiring to better respond to community needs and offers a new model for how to best deploy officers with the resources available.
The study, conducted by Matrix Consulting Group, was commissioned by the City Council in February 2024 to find ways to close gaps between police response times in different neighborhoods.
The group quickly determined the police department had “real and uneven staffing pressures,” with workloads varying significantly depending on district and unit, according to an executive summary released this week.
That resulted in inconsistent service and limited supervisory oversight in “high-demand areas,” the firm found. [...]
The study recommends shifting 600 cops out of jobs that could be done by people without police powers, then filling many of those positions with civilians. It also calls for hiring an additional 270 patrol officers and 90 patrol sergeants.
Instead of keeping a fixed number of officers in each district, the study argues that staffing should be adjusted regularly based on workloads. The department would also tackle challenges with oversight, with the study finding that “meaningful supervision becomes difficult” when sergeants are responsible for too many officers.
The good news is it supposedly didn't cost taxpayers a dime:
- Six funders, including the Civic Committee, stepped up to fund the study, which ended up costing $780,000...
We did it for free. Twenty years worth.
Can't wait to see the whole thing.
Labels: department issues
posted by SCC at 12:07 AM
129 Comments:
What the report says, and what the supe agrees with is 270 current officers BACK into districts. From what I’m hearing HQ will start to get civilianized with some bodies heading back. Counter terrorism will send some back also by trimming units and admin. PRT will be one of the bigger ones at the end of 2026. It’s not getting disbanded but all areas will be 2 teams just like the old area saturation teams were. Both straight night teams. Tac teams will remain and so will caps. Most admin spots at 35 will be gone and manned by civilians.
Should I even ask when those Booz-Allen recommendations will be rolled out?
The biggest hurdle will be the inside spots. And why? Females.
Every district, unit bureau has tons that hide… inside… behind a desk.
Imagine what would happen if hundreds of females were forced back to the watch or to the detective floor to work cases?
Make every secretary and admin person a civilian. Problem solved. You signed up to be the police. Go act like it. Those inside spots should be for light duty or for people with a ton of time
"The group quickly determined the police department had “real and uneven staffing pressures,” with workloads varying significantly depending on district and unit, according to an executive summary released this week."
That translates to:
"We haven't stripped the quiet districts of enough officers yet. We won't be happy until everyone is unhappy."
Been like this for decades.
Too many politicians interfering in policing.
Poor management practices.
Poor managers.
Lack of responsibility.
Lowered standards.
Conehead will bury it.
Shifting cops district to district each month based on workloads? Sounds like a great idea until you remember the police department is made up of humans and not just units of manpower on an excel sheet. Everyone always seems to forget that part. That will be good, bounce from district to district every month, unfamiliar with areas, people, problems spots, even your coworkers and supervisors. I’m sure there won’t be any unintended consequences there. We went from wanting guys to work the same beat every day so they can be intimately familiar, to new districts every month. Outstanding research. Dorks.
Out of those 600 positions that can be done by civilians 500 of them are hosted by mistresses and flings. So scratch that idea.
Only problem is these fucking civilians are lazy and worthless. Once they are hired it's impossible to get them fired.
That's why you have sworn at HQ, only way to get things done.
It’s the “tackle it’s challenges with oversight” that bothers me.
How much more oversight do we need?!?!
“The study recommends shifting 600 cops out of jobs that could be done by people without police powers, then filling many of those positions with civilians.”
Be careful what you wish for. Those civilians won’t be from Ivy League schools. They will all be Democrat patronage workers. Their allegiance won’t be to the CPD but to whomever sponsored them from within the Party. They can be the perfect conduit from what is going on in a unit to the Hall. I had seen civilization of certain jobs where you had sworn members and they were easy to deal with. When some civilians were brought in they became harder to interact with, and in some cases they had to bring the sworn back in to straighten things out as the civilians were incompetent. Some thought they should get the same salary as the sworn whom they replaced.
Why are all the gold star exempt bosses getting paid so much, if outside groups have to come up with strategies and ideas to run CPD! This is evidence that the bosses are incompetent. Get rid of the bosses.
The one or two desk Barbies isn’t the issue. It’s the 8 worthless caps, the bloated tac teams, and the giant elephant in the room: the many many headquarter hiding spots.
Open up the floodgates for patronage jobs! 600 more salaries, benefits and pensions! Yippee!
My Commander said he's not giving up his 3 Secretary's !!
It said more police need to be at ARS (311). Solution, put all limited duty officers there.......VIOLA.
It’s amazing how progressive politicians have completely fucked up this job as well as this country.
So would that mean that but say the 10 sector of eight, which is about the size of Inglewood would actually have some more Police and we would actually get response that would be a miracle but then again we only fit part of the demographic we don’t have as many people that look like Brandon that are out of control.
But the real question is.......will they do it?
everyone in the hood is ready to call the study racist if even 1 additional officer is added to a far north, northwest or southwest district. and don't you dare take away any of those female caps and hq p/o's with 2 years on the job, they "earned" those spots, just ask their clout
Just imagine how bad the response times would be if there was no callback unit. Hiring 270 will do nothing to move the needle.
House Mice are efficiently taking all inside spots.
Beat can be down or 99 but God forbid, House Mice hit the streets.
Hire felons. Increase pension contributions. That is all.
i should get in the business of conducting studies and rip off local governments.
Oh ok...so now I will never see a patrol car in beat 432. It's now next to never that I see one. But as usual some parts of the south side continue look like Christmas trees with their red and blue flashing lights...
Make sure to use the new cover sheet for the TPS report!
What's a high demand area anyway?
How about just clear out all those hide inside positions? Too many inside with no time on the job.
Abolish CAPS too. Too many desk dollies there.
Headquarters has being civilianized the past 6 years . Most of top leadership are civilians . People retiring and coming back as civilians . Nothing new .. they will continue to civilianize until they can’t anymore
“ We need more training “
Yet , I’m born here. I’m required to provide the “Real ID” to board a plane , enter government buildings, etc. Yeah makes sense.
Why do we need outsiders when we have Consent Decree experts and overpaid gold stars getting big bucks to shuffle the decks.
Lets get it straight. The police department is in the business of public safety. It is well known a small group of recidivist criminals commit 80% of the crime. Maybe if these criminals were locked up and social justice prevailed with actual criminal sentencing resulting in time in the pokey, workloads would decrease while crime figures would drop real low like Chicago Public schools reading proficiency scores.
Anyone who has been around for a while will know that many District Commanders do what they want to do and ignore many directives from downtown. I have seen many directives to move sworn out of the DC offices, but it never happens.( the DC girlfriend/side piece is usually here). The Caps crew are mostly useless and most of them should be put into cars. I would like to see an actual count of how many of the non-enforcement jobs are held by sworn and how many are women? This plan, if it is implemented, will take years to accomplish and I believe the city has a hiring freeze? The alderman can do what Wisconsin did to their state patrol; pass an ordinance dictating what positions must be held by sworn and what can be held by civilians . That is the only to stop the brass from hiding people.
Gotta pay them more so they can kickback to their politician sponsors, in order to keep their rank.
Trudat
I don’t think many coppers care about the efficiency thing. Can we please talk about how the city owes us hundreds of millions of dollars of VRI money and nobody can say how much money is owed, what years is it from, is it collecting interest, how many Officers does it effect, why are the unions quiet about it? Maybe someone on the blog knows the answers but everyone that talks about it has different answers.
I Saw Kamala shopping for Moon Pies at the Dollar Store with Michelle Obama Says:
How to make the CPD efficient? Easy. Just do everything the exact opposite of how it’s being done now…
What other agencies are being streamlined? Let’s start from top on down ; trim half the alderman spots out, savings will be emmence .
Think clout is spelled with an I
What did the study say about Snelling hiding a female Detective in his office? What is she doing under him? Shouldn't she be solving crimes? Come on gurl, get back to work.
“VIOLA?” What does a stringed instrument have to do with any of this? Another CPS grad heard from.
Kind of like coppers but the civilians get paid less. No inside spots for sworn.
Really an outside agency was need to tell us that? We have been saying this for years, we have not had 12,000. officers for many years. How much money did this cost? what a waste.
What is going to be done? Nothing.
In 007 caps refuses to give keys to the watch when it’s short on cars.
I have been saying this for years. The upper Command structure are a bunch of YES people. More clueless bosses than I can count using my fingers and toes.
Not my job will be the common answer to questions.
Kind of OT, but I found this very interesting. My father was a Chicago policeman. I remember so many of his friends dying in their early 50's before they retired and never getting a penny of their pension.
https://www.lawofficer.com/police-officer-mortality/
If youre smart. And under 35 years of age, you will do a lateral transfer and leave this wretched shithole
Never
No won't happen it all sounds good tho
Bring qualified retirees to teach at academy and work at HQ and you can staff the districts with some manpower. CAPS has been a dead horse since Clinton's reign ended. Any teams working for the Deputies should go back to their unit of assignment. This isn't rocket science.
They did this to the fire department years ago.The company took the yearly run list and eliminated the 20 slowest engines.Lets just say the closest fire company to Mt.Greenwood was in Oak lawn.
Probably be better off with Elon Musk's' Optimus robots. A one time cost, and they are probably smarter than the average Chicagoan.
Yup..even on details..do you ever see front office people or other hidden suck ups out there ???
Let's hire more pp.o.'s so that that eventually after probation they will work inside or at hq...just a never ending circle jerk. Funny how tge city does all of these studies but NEVER follows up with the recommendations..so why bother wasting money on nonsense
Will never happen. Been going on for decades and more still end up inside
That will never happen. They will make up new inside do nothing inside jobs for them. Already happening in areas
Agree that will never happen. They will transfer them to another unit with a man up job
In 019 it's the same shit..they keep taking people to go to the bike team or other teams and keep loosing these people off the watch..beat cars 99 or down..wait till summer when no ones working again between training..furloughs..medical..this dept is far beyond doomed
Most are very good at their job once they get it and are supervised by sworn menbers
They are everywhere look at any easy unit and see who is working there
With a mayor and Supt. who have less than a year left absolutely nothing significant will be done. $780,000 down the toilet.
You allocate offices to when and where they are needed, adjusted over time for changing workloads, not merely by politics and who screams loudest. The idea that you have the same number of people in every district no matter what is a joke. Wait until the study talks about more officers on one shift than others based on type and number of calls. It's Police Admin-101 level stuff, but CPD still ain't ready for reform.
They have a proposed bill about pension buyouts.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/new-bill-offers-police-and-firefighters-pension-buyout-option/
tac does work you must be a barbie , send all the barbie’s back in a blue and white
Female here, I totally agree!
speaking of response times... maybe an inspector can take a look at what's going on in 024 on 3rd watch. 2.5 hrs to send a car to handle a DOA while late cars went home early and early cars were sitting on bs jobs. On top of it, Supervisors didn't even answer the radio when called...
I see nothing has changed since I retired. I never could figure out what these female officers in CAPS actually as they never seem to leave the office except to go shopping or lunch.
Beat 432 should be annexed by Gary. Same demography.
I told my wife that if I ever get shot, I don't need 50 cops loitering at the hospital entrance. It's all for show, and most of them are laughing and joking around anyway.Those coppers need to be on the street.
ok but lets remeber this a deparment that cant computize manpower. each district each watch has there own schedule that a watch secretary has to make every night. And the a&a are web based but you still need a "watch sectary" to enter the a&a.
Does Forensic Services really need 25 sergeants?
Review Officer is a useless spot now that everything is on the Computer
Let’s not forget how the district manpower numbers are inflated. Example: district 26, 240 officers. Now let’s detail 25 officers out to different units. Again, 240 are counted in district 26. 25 more officers are added to the manpower count in a unit. If a true and honest study was done, it would show how the manpower numbers are falsified to show the district is up to it’s maximum allowed strength.
Here’s an important question about this-
Would you want them on the street with you?
7 - 8 years on, and 19 months in a squad car. 3 career arrests, more concerned about her nails and pink accents on her uniform than locking anyone up.
Yeah… stay inside
Wait… what about the “contract”?!?!
How are you going to just shift a whole bunch of Officers from one District to another, then from one Watch to a different Watch?
Englwood…
With an “E”
There is no leadership in this Dept. In those instances where there is a glimmer of sound leadership, they are quickly identified and overwhelmed by the HQ's mediocrity.
Key takeaway from your comment: what is she doing under him 🤣🤣🤣
2/13/2026 02:35:51 PM
You better get comfortable working with the entitled princesses because eventually the lucky ladies will need to pick up my slack when I'm on the medical this summer.
Haha Viola ? I bet your Sgt. loves your reports
Think clout is spelled with an I
Say what?
You pay no property taxes, that’s your reward for living in that turd of an area. I agree with the guy above, give that shit to Indiana. We may have to pay them to take it.
All the answers to your questions are contained in the Disrrict court's file. Why not look it up yourself. The unions were never part of the lawsuit. The city might be in the hook for triple damages, before calculating any intrest. The lawsuit includes more than vri, it includes all special employment, except cta. The city does not have the money, at treble damages the actuary calculated 500 million in intrest and damages.
Every sector in eight is as big or Bigger than 007!!!
019 is doomed under Amin Jessani (AJ).
Supervisors backstabbing each other while working split tours.
House mice are plenty and fat. 1967 Team, useless as CAPS.
Great post. Everybody is talking about this on both sides of the city all with different information
yep, never trust the numbers. Years ago, I was assigned to one unit, detailed to another, then lent to another unit. I was counted in the first 2 but worked the 3rd. Remember, "Figures don't lie, but liars do figure."
What will 012 do with all the commanders females up in his office. I think combined they have 10 years for the three of them. Not to mention his drunken sidekick admin sgt. Racist ass that he is. It’s okay he has all the answers. News flash. You are not getting promoted. Your done.
Female officer makes a more sympathetic shooter of offenders. Seen the Olympic trans woman boxer who messed up the Italian girl? And the victim there was a trained experienced world-class boxer. Imagine what an actual adult man can do to a just gym-fit woman copper with his fist. Female police should shoot at the first sign of a cocked fist. Then show up in court in pigtails and bobby sox and dare anyone to convict her. JSM
Correct. What are the duties of a review officer now?
I'd rather see it misspelled as viola than "walla" like somebody previously did on here. BTW, it's voila.
What was the rush?
A- do you want civilians to have access to all your personal info. and around sensitive department info?
B- have you seen the competency and quality of the civilians they hire?
for the glacially stupid
What about our lil Tac Lt who is saying he’s going to be the next Commander.
Smart. If you let the watch use the car they’ll return it fucked up and filthy. Greasy steering wheels, food wrappers in back seat, chicken bones under the seat. Fuck that.
Lets face it, nothing will change for CPD. Lets look in roll call, how many po's have a standard uniform? PO's cant even dress themsleves, every po is a snowflake. And getting po's from inside spots to fill the districts will never happen. Nothing to see. This shouldnt have been a post.
Disband the area prt cars.
Spot on!
LOL & Amen to 12:21:04
Civilian here, reading this blog only b/c frustrated by near total absence of news coverage of rampant crime in my neighborhood. Laughing b/c in my few interactions with a generally absent CPD, it’s been immediately apparent they are completely (willfully?) ignorant of the 3 obvious gang safehouse / drug sale addresses on our street.
This switching officers around must be the reason. Certainly not some deep-rooted corruption thing.
Never underestimate male lust and the hypergamy of a female. Especially on this job.
Sounds like the OEM and Trotter’s church peoples (folks). Their allegiance is their current “boo” hustling on the streets leaking intel and whereabouts of units.
“Why these raysist popo’s be paid more than we git we do all the work”.
You won’t see a single civilian from Beverly, Bridgeport, Edison Park or Clearing in those spots who hold good intentions, work ethic with family history on the job. Not one. It will be FMLA abusers and lay-up city especially on the 6th and 22nd and basically every weekend in the summer causing a Sworn to be put back in that spot anyway.
Truth. Nobody cares. It’s all for show. It’s like Sonny said: Gangsters have this thing about flowers they think whoever sends the biggest arraignment cares the most. Loitering at the hospital is the same way. Nobody cares. It’s just to talk shop, flirt with the new Coed with the pink cuffs and pink hand sanitizer bottle with the fake lashes and to get a 2hr break from tour.
Has anyone ever seen that clip where the hot shot cocky handsome lawyer is interviewing to be his legal secretary. He looks out in the lobby of his office see’s a sea of beautiful women waiting to interview but looks over and chooses the old unattractive but competent lady and hires her on the spot. Imagine if our bosses had discipline and carnal restraint. Imagine how much more proficient this Dept would be.
Name and shame, otherwise you’re all talk.
Southside and Westside will throw a temper tantrum with all the beauty queen hiding spots
Did you get the memo?
LMFAO, I love that movie, fucking classic
177 sergeants manage an average of 3 people each
That's the best spot in the patrol division if you have enough seniority to outbid everyone else when the spot opens up. Not everything is on the computer. Missing, supps, recovered vehicle supps, animal bite cards, tow and inpounds, clear and present danger filings. Plenty to do.
Dont worry, you’re basicly suburban police, compared to the rest of the city….
The average for Fire was 18 months.we told them in the 80’s with the masks we will live a lot longer so they increased the 28% funding to 36%.
Look at the pay scales and see how many spots in forensics call for an increased pension.
What is the female detective doing under him ? You just answered your own question.
Most review officers are the top 1 percent in seniority. They are just trying to cross the finish line. Start picking on the 5 year all stars who are working inside.
There would be nothing but Carol Burnett lookalikes working inside.
How will the areas survive w/o all their trp arrests tho?
Still that stupid argument about the civilians have access to you personal info The whole world has that access and they are civilians IRS, banks, financial, advisor clerk and staff at doctors office and hospitals. kids school office personal and any idiot can get your phone number and address from white pages. Yea the civilians are a threat
The city new back in december of 2019, due to the consent decree, that it needed over 1600 first-line supervisors. The city chose not to staff these postions. Now ask your self why they needed this study? Also, why only release the executive summary?
Isp taking over the eway put tones of officers on the street. Where did they go?
Wait till decertification clears out callback!
George soros and other paid for the study.
A5 will manage just fine.
Wow finally
Late cars get a duck, early cars getting sent home an hour or two early everyday
end the gold braid pension, eliminate rank of captain and useless inspector.
hire civilians to check uniforms, grooming standards at roll call. You can get someone to do it for the salary of a probationary police officer. coward inspectors don't go on hot calls in the ghetto.
CAPS is in fop contract. wanna change it, talk to jcat
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