Police Board

Chicago Police Board
Criminal Justice

Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022
7:30 p.m. CST

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Edited and summarized by the Chicago - IL Documenters Team

Note-taking by Yiwen Lu

Presentation on the Narcotics Arrest Diversion Program, COPA's mediation program and CPD altercation with citizen

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Live reporting by Samantha Callender

Presentation on the Narcotics Arrest Diversion Program, COPA's mediation program and CPD altercation with citizen

samantha @OnYourCallender
Samantha here for @CHIdocumenters , posting a Twitter recap of The Chicago Police Board meeting from January 20, 2022.

(technical difficulties prevented live-tweetings) #chidocumenters

12:06 PM Jan 21, 2022 CST

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@CHIdocumenters After the live-stream became public, we begin with a presentation on the progress and goals of the Narcotics Arrest Diversion Program.

This program is a police-led drug deflection program- providing counseling instead of pushing offenders into the criminal justice system.
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“The Narcotics Arrest Diversion Program, started in 2018 on the West Side, and has directed more than 700 people in 11 eligible police districts toward drug treatment program”

news.wttw.com/2021/07/22/nar…
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The program is available for arrestees with select narcotics offenses. See eligibility below: https://t.co/cAlzAaLQ17
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Roseanna Ander from UChicago Urban Labs begins their part of the presentation, stating how in the past, traditional approaches to narcotics offenses included arresting offenders, which has not proven to significantly deter abuse
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They stress how this a voluntary program, and benefits arrestees any allowing them to receive treatment instead of going through the criminal process https://t.co/VxBvf0AMob
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Julie Skokna, Counselor at Thresholds Substance Use Arrest Deflection at Chicago PD, begins to speak on the support that Thresholds provided once they are deferred from the justice system via the NADP program
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Thresholds can also help folks secure housing, IDs, job training and support, and veterans programs as well.

thresholds.org
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Since the beginning of the NADP, 830 folks have been diverted from the criminal system and placed into treatment. This is claimed to be the largest diversion in the country. See below for more stat breakdowns https://t.co/VAfWhBjmOH
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This program, as of now, mainly sees enrollment from arrestees in CPD’s 10th District.

Nationwide, narcotics arrests are mainly people of color

npr.org/2021/06/17/100…
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Threshold breaks down the NAPD's 3 goals:

- Connect individuals w/substance disorders to treatment
- Reduce time officers spend on processing low level drug offenses
- Improving public safety w/o use of incarceration
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A question is raised of what the financial impact of the program.

Currently, NADP is working to quantify the success of the programs, taking into consideration cost saved on processing, arrests, and overdoses. They say that information will be forthcoming.
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Recently, "The Sun-Times and the BGA calculated that, between 2013 and 2018, it cost more than $100 million to briefly jail people on low-level drug charges, excluding medical care costs."

chicago.suntimes.com/2021/12/6/2282…
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Wrapping up the presentation on the Narcotics Arrest Diversion Program, they end with saying anyone wanting to be proactive about treatment can contact Threshold directly at 773-241-0487 for support .
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The board moves on to vote on a few motions, one of which is the decision to suspend Officer Luigi Sarli without pay for two years.
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Officer Sarli was accused discharging a weapon toward a moving vehicle during a 2018 incident.
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Next is a motion to enter a General Omnibus Order on conducting disciplinary hearings via two-way video
conferencing (such as the Zoom platform) due to the recent uptick in COVID cases across the City.

Motion passes.
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Next is Superintendent Brown giving his remarks. He speaks to the importance of tackling public safety.

“In 2022 our goal is to engage 1.5 million in positive interactions.”

No specification what constitutes a ‘positive interaction’ and how that is measured or determined.
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Supt. Brown notes CPD now has 22 mental health clinicians- one for each district. Two off-site clinics will be opened as well in an effort to prioritize the mental health of officers.
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Supt Brown also notes that gang and narcotic criminals are of focus for CPD.

They will be expanding their pod cameras and license plate reader technology in response to the uptick in carjacking's.
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Related: Tracking Chicago’s Carjackings
blockclubchicago.org/tag/carjacking…
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Next, the Board gives us some updated stats on complaints:

359 complaints were taken in December against CPD officers. Improper search and seizure were of the highest complaint.

43% of cases were closed
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COPA also says 15 different policies that were decent decree driven have been taken down

chicagopoliceconsentdecree.org
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COPA says they plan to used closed disciplinary cases as training tools and examples to prevent negative practices.
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Related: Mayor Lightfoot Announces Plan to Launch Community-Police Mediation Pilot to Address Select Police Misconduct Complaints
The program would allow some COPA and BIA complaints to be referred to a community mediation program

chicago.gov/city/en/depts/…
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Now on to public comment:

First is Corey Dooley from the Chicago Youth Council for Police Accountability a council was created to “give young people a seat at the table by creating a platform for them to provide input on key policies related to policing ...”
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Corey thanks the board for carving out space for the Youth when it comes to police accountability

Learn more about their council here weable.org/the-youth-move…
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The next speaker is calling in support of Nakkita Brown and calling for Supt. Brown to fire offending Officer Bruce Dyker.

google.com/amp/s/abcnews.…
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This isn’t the first time Officer Dyker has been accused of misconduct. Supt Brown is slated to give his decision in the coming days

google.com/amp/s/southsid…
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The next commenter calls in support of newly appointed Adam Gross as executive director of Community Commission for Public Safety.

chicago.suntimes.com/2022/1/10/2287…
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That's all for public comment. Board moves to end meeting.

Meeting adjourned at 8:34 PM.

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