Bill Text: IL HR0006 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges the Inspector General of the City of Chicago to conduct a performance audit of the Chicago Police Department to determine and assess police emergency response times in Chicago neighborhoods and communities and to make recommendations to improve response times in primarily African American and Hispanic neighborhoods and communities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-22 - Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Mary E. Flowers [HR0006 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HR0006-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, In 2011, the American Civil Liberties Union of | ||||||
| 3 | Illinois filed a lawsuit against the City of Chicago on behalf | ||||||
| 4 | of the Central Austin Neighborhood Association (CANA) alleging | ||||||
| 5 | that police are deployed inequitably across the city's | ||||||
| 6 | neighborhoods and communities; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, The Central Austin Neighborhood Association | ||||||
| 8 | contended that Chicago police officers are not dispatched to | ||||||
| 9 | 911 calls in a timely manner in primarily African American and | ||||||
| 10 | Hispanic neighborhoods and communities; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, The Office of Inspector General of the City of | ||||||
| 12 | Chicago is empowered by Section 2-56-030 of the Chicago | ||||||
| 13 | Municipal Code to investigate the performance of governmental | ||||||
| 14 | officers, employees, functions, and programs, either in | ||||||
| 15 | response to a complaint or
on the Inspector General's own | ||||||
| 16 | initiative, in order to detect and prevent misconduct, | ||||||
| 17 | inefficiency, and waste within the programs and
operations of | ||||||
| 18 | the city government; and
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| 19 | WHEREAS, Because of the lawsuit filed by the American Civil | ||||||
| 20 | Liberties Union of Illinois and the complaints of the Central | ||||||
| 21 | Austin Neighborhood Association, it is of urgent necessity that | ||||||
| 22 | a performance audit of the Chicago Police Department be | ||||||
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| 1 | conducted by the Inspector General of the City of Chicago to | ||||||
| 2 | determine and assess police emergency response times in Chicago | ||||||
| 3 | neighborhoods and communities and to make recommendations to | ||||||
| 4 | improve response times in primarily African American and | ||||||
| 5 | Hispanic neighborhoods and communities; therefore, be it
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| 6 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 7 | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 8 | urge the Inspector General of the City of Chicago to conduct a | ||||||
| 9 | performance audit of the Chicago Police Department to determine | ||||||
| 10 | and assess police emergency response times in Chicago | ||||||
| 11 | neighborhoods and communities and to make recommendations to | ||||||
| 12 | improve response times in primarily African American and | ||||||
| 13 | Hispanic neighborhoods and communities; and be it further
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| 14 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this Resolution be | ||||||
| 15 | forwarded to the Mayor and Inspector General of the City of | ||||||
| 16 | Chicago.
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