As crime continues to roil economic and social life in post-George Floyd, post-Covid Chicago, getting policing and criminal justice right are crucial. City officials are failing at that task. We're already seen anemic rates of arrest and prosecutions in Chicago, accompanied by finger-pointing between politicians over crime and the court system
In 2021, there were 406,829 incidents of high-priority emergency service calls for which there were no police available to respond.
- Of these, 52% were Priority Level 1 incidents, which represent "an imminent threat to life, bodily injury, or major property damage/loss," and Priority Level 2 incidents when "timely police action...has the potential to affect the outcome of an incident."
- Emergency police dispatches and call backlogs
- Chicago police handle about 1.3 million dispatched 911 calls for service each year between 2019 and 2021. About 800,000 of these are high priority, about 60% of the total.
RAPs are to be avoided if at all possible
- Field supervisors should repeatedly check all available patrol and special unit personnel on duty to see if they can redeploy to new and high-priority dispatch requests.
- Supervisors can deny lunches, personal breaks, and station assignments until the backlog ends.
Unfortunately, Wirepoints can’t determine just how long RAPs typically last.
- Although field supervisors are instructed under a CPD directive to “note in the supervisor's management log (CPD-11.455) the time the RAP started, efforts made to end it, and the time it ended," those records are paper only and not electronic.
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