Case Study: The Chicago Police Department

What is a good policing strategy without its successes and failure? Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS) was created around the 1990’s as an strategy to improve a society that have failed towards the prevention of crimes and it relations with citizens. This program involves a wide department transformation in the way citizens perceive police officers working towards stopping crime.The program is Reforming a decision making and involving new strategies to combat the wrong. The question is what implementations have worked with this program? Have been the policy of the program a success or a failure? The answer is the ties between policing and citizens.

Chicago has had its share of police corruption and scandals throughout the city’s history. Officials always vowing that corruption will never happen. One of the corruption cases that caught my attention was about Joseph Miedzianowski. According to NewOne, Joseph Miedzianowski is ranked number 4 as the most corrupt cop in the U.S. of all time. Joseph Miedzianowski was a Chicago police officer for 22 years. He served as a police officer and a drug kingpin shaking down drug dealers. He also ran Chicago’s gang unit and his own gang dealing drugs (NewsOne. 2011).

On Friday, January 20, 2017, I, Officer McDaniel #147, of Mansfield ISD Police Department, located at 1522 N Walnut Creek Dr, Mansfield, TX, was on a campus check a James Coble Middle School, located at 1200 Ballweg Rd, Arlington, TX, when School Counselor Smith, Murrielisa, B/F, DOB unk, stated that she has a student in her office having suicidal and homicidal thoughts.

There is always controversy around the issue of Chicago Police violence against the civilians. In the past few years, Chicago police officers have been using excessive force in dealing with criminals and civilians. Shootings, false arrests, illegal seizures, and physical violence are problems resulted in police misconduct that have been going for years. Chicagoans now not only start concerning about their safety from the criminals but also worried on protecting themselves from the officers that supposed to keep them sound. Statistic shows that there have been around 56,500 claims on Chicago police misconduct from the citizen since 2014 and roughly 96% of them are abandoned from further investigate.

In the 1990s, the growth of violent crime reached its all-time high in New York City. In response to the number of high murder rates in the 1990s, the New York City Police Department realized that their efforts to reduce crime were ineffective. The local news reported that New Yorkers were afraid to wear their jewelry in public. Some reported they had to sprint to the subway exit to avoid victimization when the door opened. The New York City Police Department decided to implement a practice of Stop, Question, and Frisk. This practice became known as Stop -and- Frisk (Bellin, 2014). Stop-and Frisk” was a method in which an officer stopped a pedestrian and asked them a question, and then frisked them for any weapon or contraband (Rengifo & Slocum, 2016). By the late 1990s, stop-and frisk became a common practice implemented by New York City Police Department (Bellin, 2014).

The policy recommendations for the City of Chicago Police Department include recommendations relating to the screening and supervision processes for the purpose of preventing and detecting corruption in the department. Included are recommendations such as those made in New York City in 1994 as follows: (1) Improvement of screening and recruitment;(2) Improvement of r3ecruit education and in service integrity training;(3) strengthening first-line supervision;(4) reinvention of the enforcement of command accountability;(4) attacking corruption and brutality tolerance;(6) challenge other aspects of police culture and conditions that breed corruption and brutality;(7) enhancement of sanctions and disincentives for corruption and brutality;(8) strengthening of intelligence gathering efforts;(9) solicitation of police union support for anti-corruption efforts;(19) minimization of the corruption hazards of community policing; and (11) legislative reforms. (Mollen, et al, 1994, p.7)

On September 1, 2015 in Fox Lake, Illinois, Lieutenant Charles Joseph Gliniewicz a “30-year police veteran” (Antlfinger, 2015) of the Lake Fox Police Department was shot and killed by three suspects. According to Deputy Chris Covelli of the Lake County Sheriff’s Department, Tuesday morning, “around 7:50 a.m., the officer radioed he was pursuing three suspects, after looking into their “suspicious activity””(“ Manhunt In Fox Lake After Police Officer Shot And Killed", 2015). Lt. Gliniewicz had spotted the three suspects on his “way to work along a roadway with nothing around but open fields and abandoned-looking businesses” (Antlfinger, 2015). Lt. Gliniewicz “told dispatchers the men ran into a swampy area, and he requested a second unit”

In May of 1983 the Bloomingdale Police Department receives and anonymous letter about the activities of Lance and Sue Gates and their involvement in drug trafficking .The contents of the letter are as follows:

Appearing on RTVi (Russian Television International), de Blasio on Friday said he strongly opposes the NYPD to cooperate with immigration enforcement agents, arguing New York will not change its policy towards illegal immigrants in the face of President Trump’s executive order.

The sergeant killed was Steve Owen, a 29-year department veteran, according to sheriff's Executive Officer Neal Tyler.

The employees of the Minocqua Police Department are committed to providing the highest possible level of police service to our community. The mission of the Minocqua Police Department is to "enhance the quality of life in the community through our service to the public, protection of persons and property, impartial enforcement of the law, and partnership with the community."

Colorado Springs has expanded throughout the years which has increased its population due to tourism, the military, and legalization of marijuana. The Colorado Springs Police Department has had many breakthroughs and implementation of programs to include citizens of Colorado Springs. The police department was the first in collecting fingerprints, hired crime analysts, and left initiative to police officers in problem solving on the field. Tactical decisions were left to police managers and the Chief of Police until reorganizations took place in the department.

Is the US Police department creating an environment in where it is allowed to wrongly

The staffing of the administrative structure of COP, as well as the COP unit, are important elements of the pilot program in development. The experimental area of the program will be tested in 5 Brooklyn precincts, preferably in the 67th precinct, 71sr precinct, 73rd precinct, 75th precinct, and 81st precinct.

The Chicago Police Department has made the ultimate commitment to protect the lives of the people, their property, and all of their rights. They have vowed to preserve order, and to implement laws without showing partiality. Chicago police will provide quality police services and maintain partnership with other members of the community. In order to carry out their mission, they have strived to achieve the highest degree of ethical behavior and maintain their professionalism at all times. The purpose of this essay is to focus on the Chicago Police Department and highlight how it has been impacted by a recent change in regulations in regards to use of force.