Well, that's all right.

So that's the up here.

They could just want to like section.

Okay, that's perfect.

So you'll be there all the time.

Yeah, just or the idea just for that one.

Like to call the Chicago Cook County Violence Against Women Task Force meeting to order.

I'm Commissioner Miller.

And are there any registered public speakers?

And can Amy also read the public speaker process?

Yes.

Yes, we have two public speakers.

Yes, we have two public speakers.

Members of the public who wish to testify have until 24 hours before the scheduled start of the meeting to register in order to do so.

Speakers will have three minutes to address the task force, and we'll be alerted when they have one minute time remaining, and 30 seconds remain, and when time has expired.

of the public we have uh uh public register uh lena care curry good morning everyone this is very important meeting for all survivors of domestic violence and and uh i personally and some other people want to gain more understanding with what data the this task force will be working um and i would request that task force would work more with data provided by survivors um the domestic violence or intimate partner violence is only the beginning it's very hard but it is also way harder when that abuse actually happening in the court system so the major the major um problem is institutional violence against women and domestic relations division is that institution that actively participates in violence against women where uh domestic violence division gives orders of protection those orders of protection in domestic relations division uh vacated there are no court reporters it's uh complete failure and uh since July of the of 2025 the majority of victims of domestic violence we testified actually about institutional violence in domestic relations there is no accountability evidence suppressed there are no court reporters judges allowed uh misconduct of of attorneys there are everywhere rules judges should report them they do not attorneys should report judicial misconduct they do not and there is no oversight multiple of us were complaining to chief judge's office and there is no significant changes nothing didn't have to reporters are not there is continuous day sequenic office refuses to prosecute miscolandic in spite of the QT and so I'm here to bring attention to this institutional violence against women and I would I'm asking the task force to actually explain to the public what we can do what you can do how this peace can be worked on thank you thank you then we have another uh registered public speaker patricia punta clappus thank you very much for listening to me um I have an issue it's everything that she said I went to five five five to complain about two Puerto Ricans have been harassing me and they wouldn't let me inside my building and then the other one wouldn't let me get out now I'm an elderly I'm 66 years old they're younger than me what do they want with me they want me to go and drink beer with them and what have sex with them what the heck is that I'm an elderly I don't need a man so then I went to Pi Pi5 what is it that that happened they know people Hispanic people that protected them and they just threw my teeth out I was like what happened here they didn't show up oh yeah they did show up but you didn't no I had this date and you are talking I'm really good in my dates because I put them on my phone I used to be a stenographer I used to be a secretary okay so then I know how to handle papers so then they act to me like oh no you didn't show up since I moved to 6252 South Knox Avenue I've had problems with the Hispanic with their loud music it's 10 11 12 1 2 3 o'clock in the morning four I was working as a part-time driver I needed to get up at four o'clock in the morning to go and then I couldn't I was so tired because they would have their loud music I started complaining they started harassing me okay now the thing is it stopped it's 95% quiet okay but I've been gone I've been through a lot the police handcuffed me without any reason I asked them to speak with a supervisor they denied me and they let me to Mount Sinai I was like wait I had to speak with a supervisor why am I a Mount Sinai they didn't tell me anything is this the way how the law enforcement takes care of the woman oh you know all the women are crazy they don't know what they're doing da da da no i am my sixth sense and everything but the thing is just what she said a lot of judges are being paid under the table because they say we help the Hispanics only that was anti Guerrero Coilar when I went to her office to talk about the migrants that were being uh harassing other people and doing gang signs and she said like oh we're not gonna do anything because I we only help the Hispanics thank you very much this is the United States of America I was even told by the none by the immigrants that wasn't allowed

A lot of judges are being paid under the table because they say we help the Hispanics only.

And that was anti-peral coiler.

When I went to her office to talk about the migrants that were being uh harassing other people and doing gang signs, and she said, like, oh, and we're not gonna do anything because I we only help the Hispanics.

Thank you very much.

This is the United States of America.

I was even told by the none by the immigrants that wasn't allowed to speak English.

What the heck?

What the heck is going on in the United States of America?

Thank you.

And that blessing, I hope you do a good job.

Time is up.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you to the public speakers.

Um I just want to thank everyone who's here for the task force.

Thank you all for your willingness to serve on the task force.

I want to thank Katie Dunn for helping us organize and facilitate these meetings.

Alderman, otherwoman Tavares is also here.

Would you like to say a few words of introduction?

Yeah.

Good morning, everybody.

Good morning, everybody.

I just want to welcome everybody.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you to our Cook County Commissioners who are here today.

To uh Marianna Serapoulis, too, who was here today.

Thank you for listening.

I know we have a lot of presentations today.

So I want to thank those who are here.

Um I see the Chicago Police Department, Department of Family and Support Services.

Thank you for listening.

And this is very survivor led.

And thank you also to Katie Dunn as well for organizing.

Thank you.

Well, thank you.

We have a lot of work to do.

I know you're all here committed to the work.

I do want to thank uh my fellow commissioners, Commissioner Naya, Commissioner Gainer, Commissioner Degman, and thank you, Clerk Sparopolis, for being here.

And if there's any other, I don't think there's any other electeds here.

So what we're gonna do, I think what we easier is we'll pass around a paper so that everyone can sign in so we know who's here uh from the different departments instead of taking time away from the presentations for everybody to introduce themselves.

I know we all play a vital role.

I'd love to hear from everyone, but that would take another 20 or 30 minutes.

So if it's okay with everyone, we will go right into the presentations.

And Katie, if you want to uh go ahead and get started and introduce your presentation and who's here with you today.

Sure.

Thank you, thank you all for being here today.

Um, our first presenter, we're so honored to have.

Uh, she is the inspector general of the city of Chicago.

And if you're not aware, the offer tag a tremendous dashboard with really invaluable public information.

Um, and so with that, we'll let her present the dashboard.

And thank you for so much for being here.

Thank you for having me.

Um, thank you for the introduction.

I so appreciate the work you all are here to do and and the opportunity to the same.

No, no, you really appreciate the work you all are doing and uh and the opportunity for us to help in any way we can.

So maybe can you move up?

Yes, because it doesn't sound like you're out loud.

Sure.

Okay.

Always happy to sit.

There you go.

Um, thank you.

So um I as we are here to talk about data transparency specifically, I want to talk a little bit about our data transparency work broadly, and then I'm gonna walk you all through some of the specific resources we have available on intimate partner violence um and and family violence.

Um in the work of data transparency, um we have devoted a lot of time and energy to the notion that information about the government belongs to the government, and that in the business of fostering public trust, we cannot ask people to trust government that happens in the dark.

And so we devote, as I say, a great deal of time and energy to work which is simply designed to sort of shine a light on the way we govern, including and with particular attention to the city's public safety operations because of the amount of of kind of significance and importance that that um is attached to those operations.

So in the service of that part of our mission, we have built what we call our information portal.

So you have on your screen this is this is the website for the City of Chicago Office of Inspector General.

That is IG Chicago.org.

And I'm just gonna we're gonna walk through this together so you all know where to find these resources if you're looking for them.

There are all kinds of other good things on our website, which another day I'd be happy to talk your ears off about.

But if you go here to our information portal, this will bring you to the options we have for data dashboards.

The Office of Inspector General has oversight jurisdiction over all of the operations of city government, and that includes direct back end access to city data, including data from the police department and from the 911 center.

And what that direct backend access allows us to do, as distinguished from what some entities outside of city government might be able to do, is to have this kind of continuous draw on updating data so that we can have these living transparency tools, which are not dependent upon our kind of asking for periodic data from the city.

So we'll go here to the public safety section of the information portal.

There are other resources here, which in your other travels might be of some interest, including the city workforce and city budget, et cetera.

But but for today's purposes, we will focus on the public safety tools.

And I want to look at two of these dashboards in particular as relevant to the work you all are doing.

The first is on is 911 calls.

So the first family of dashboards here has to do with calls to 911 for police service.

Now, of course, as you all know, in the city, people can call 911 either for police service or for emergency medical service from the fire department.

We're going to focus today on 911 calls for CPD service.

So we go to this dashboard.

And this brings up data.

These are designed to put city data in a meaningful way into the hands of stakeholders who need it.

We have often observed, and I know many of you have as well, that there's a huge gap between something being theoretically publicly available and meaningfully publicly accessible.

So there's a great deal of data which might, for example, be subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

Um, but getting a hold of it in a way that makes it meaningfully possible to use it is very challenging.

And these data tools are designed to bridge that gap where we can do so.

So the data here on 911 calls for CPD service.

This is uh was last updated on February 10th.

So again, this is drawing on our continuous access to city data.

And you can select your own time frame, but the default here is that we're looking at data from the beginning of 2023 this year, and we see in that time 3.7 million calls for service.

What the dashboard allows us to do again, as most relevant to the work you all are doing, is that we can select for types of calls.

Um we go to this drop-down member uh menu for call types, and we can select any that are of interest, and particularly here, we have, for example, um, we can select for domestic battery, domestic disturbance, and we also have a call type for violations of orders of protection.

So, by way of example here and how to use this, we will select those and apply them.

Um, and we're doing this in real time, so I apologize for the data lags here.

Um, what this what we now see is that in this same period of time from the beginning of 2023 through the end of last month, these are all are all of the calls, um 373,000 of them, which were attached to that call for service type.

We see that these the overwhelming, all but handful of these were in the immediate dispatch category that speaks to the urgency with which a police response is sent out.

Um you can see the calls for service over time by month, priority area, et cetera.

Um, this gives us a sort of complete picture of the calls for service across the 911 system.

We can also here filter for geographic unit.

You can look by police beat or district, and you can also narrow the time frame depending on kind of what question you are setting out to answer with your use of the data.

Um, and as you look at trends.

We also have with this dashboard, as we do whenever possible on our dashboards, we have a map component.

We have a geographic component for the data.

As you all know, Chicago is very much a city of neighborhoods and public safety challenges and city services and many other things look very different in some parts of the city than in others.

And so, whenever possible, whenever there is a kind of geographic component to the data, we include a map option on the dashboard, which includes census data for kind of demographic context around the data.

So that is the first of these that I want to highlight, the first of these dashboards.

Um, the second, and again, I want to be brief here, respecting how many other things you all have to do, although I would be happy to be here all day talking about these things.

So I will I will go through the second one and then if there are questions or anything else that's of further interest, I'd be happy to address this further.

So back up to the public safety section on the information portal.

Um, the other dashboard that I want to look at is uh one of our newest ones, and that's on reported crimes.

So that the dashboard we just looked at, that was 911 calls.

That's every time somebody calls for emergency service.

This dashboard is drawn on a different data set.

This is drawn on reported police incidents by RD number by report number.

So this is every incident for which CPD pulls a report number.

And we are looking at crime categories.

And as you use the dashboard, you will find we have um wherever it seems helpful, we've included kind of definitional information to help sort out what the categories mean and where we draw those data distinctions from.

But we will go here.

Um this is again, we can uh this is drawn from continuously updating data.

This one is last updated on the 8th.

Um this goes back through the most recent 12 months remote.

This is a huge data set, and so in the interest of kind of maintaining the usability of the dashboard, we have currently defaults to the last 12 months.

We have 236,000 reported crimes.

So what we'll do here again, just by way of example, is we will select for those those crimes uh which are categorized as crimes related to family.

Um and there are certainly others here which um which might be relevant to the work, but but again, by way of demonstration, we'll choose offenses against family and children or involving children and apply.

And what we'll get is the numbers for reported crimes in that category with this geographic demonstration crime counts by district.

So we're now seeing just crimes in that category.

We see 688 of them, and you can see them mapped here on the left, where in the city which districts those are coming out of.

And you can select a single district and then look at this trend line.

Crime count by month.

So the one we're seeing here is for the first district.

That's that's where we are now, that's downtown.

Um, and and you can select any other district that's of interest to you and look at that trend.

You can select for a different crime category.

But again, just by way of demonstration in terms of how this might be useful, and also sort of at least one corner of what is possible in terms of data transparency around law enforcement and public safety data.

By no means are are the tools we use on the dashboards the only ones that are available, but this is certainly the art of the possible here.

These are you know, just by way of again demonstration of what we have been able to do.

Um, I will say here CBD has been tremendously helpful in our efforts to build these dashboards and to work in the direction of better data transparency around public safety operations.

We it is our regular practice with all city departments, certainly including CPD, that we demonstrate these dashboards kind of in draft form before we publish them to make sure to kind of test our treatment of the data, make sure we're making the right assumptions, categorizing things appropriately.

Um CBD has been tremendously helpful with these um as well as with others.

One of the things, sorry, I'll point out quickly about this dashboard um is that it includes cleared, it includes information on clearance rates, that is um the disposition of a case in CPD's records.

There are a number of different ways that a case can be cleared.

It's sometimes but not always means that that case prosecuted.

Um of the things that this data shows is clearance rates on um on a particular category of crime we're seeing here are these 688 reported crimes in the category we selected offenses against family that CPD is reporting a clearance rate of 70.1%.

So I will I will stop there.

Um I'd be happy to answer any questions if that would be helpful or appropriate, but otherwise, um I I hope that you all will use the dashboard and find it helpful.

There is a place on each dashboard landing page for comments and questions.

If as you use the dashboards, you have either questions about their use or suggestions for us about how those tools might be more valuable.

Um please let us know.

Also, certainly as the task force works through its own data transparency efforts, if there's anything that we can do to be helpful by way of kind of methodology on how we've done this, we'd be more than happy to do that.

Um thank you.

And um you really showed that this is possible.

And so kudos to you and also the Chicago Police Department because when I first found this website, I was astounded that it existed.

So thank you for all the work behind it.

It really helps us show the scope of what's going on.

Um if anybody has any questions for the inspector general, you can email us.

Oh, I was gonna say you could email us and we'll bring late on and the email is task force at CC VAW.com.

Um so thank you very much.

Thank you so much, Inspector General.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for having us.

Thank you for all your work.

Thank you.

Um next, we have the university crime lab.

Thank you.

Of course.

And if you can do that, that would be great.

Okay, it's uh okay, great.

So we can see it for the top.

Okay.

Great.

Thank you so much for this evening.

Awesome.

My name is Martin Barron.

I am a senior director of data and analysis for the Crime and Red Labs.

Morning, everyone.

Yeah, make sure you're in the mic.

Okay.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Thank you, everyone, for having us here today.

My name is Javier Lopez.

I'm with the University of Chicago Crime Lab.

Today we're going to be presenting on the violence reduction dashboard.

And you'll probably notice that there's a lot of parallels with uh this dashboard and what the inspector general just showed, just um slightly different tools, but all towards the same goal of data transparency.

So thank you all for allowing us to contribute to the conversation today.

And I would really appreciate that.

Can you hear him?

Perfect.

Okay, so today we'll be going over this um this agenda here, uh, some brief introductions from us.

We will touch on a little bit of the history that helped inspire the dashboard's development.

We'll also do a live demonstration.

Um and Martin will be around to answer questions on data uh logistics, and then uh if there's time, we can close out with the QA.

Otherwise, we'll also um get in touch with Katie and other folks to answer any questions you might have.

So uh yes, I'm Javier Lopez.

Uh been at the University of Chicago since 2020.

Um I think what's most relevant for this group is that I'm an avid user of the balance production dashboard.

Um, not just the tools that are on the page, but the underlying data that powers it is is publicly available, so our team often uh pulls that data and curates um like unique tools and uh different reports like our end of view report and things of that nature.

Um please okay, uh just on brief history.

The the balance production dashboard was really uh coming on the heels of the surge and gun violence that we observed in Chicago from 2015 to 2016.

As you'll see in this uh in this slide, we observed the 44% jump in non-fatal shootings and a 61% jump in fatal shootings.

So this really inspired us to work with um city officials at the mayor's office, uh balance reduction intervention organizations and other stakeholders in our space to start imagining a different uh approach to public safety.

And one of the things that Crime Lab did was uh begin sharing static uh analytical products with our partners.

So uh these were happening sort of um throughout 2017-2018, where uh we'd get a request from partner out in Englewood, for instance, and we would develop uh a particular analysis for them.

Uh and then what we noticed is that these static products were quickly becoming dated, so we needed to do things like you know, refresh the analysis every time, and we'd also uh realize that you know perhaps our partners out in West Guard Bill Park had highly similar requests.

So uh taking from those uh insights, we we found that there was parallels and and strategies that we can develop to make this data more accessible to our partners, both by making it timely available and also um just by trying to streamline some of the fundamental insights that these dashboards and these products are trying to uh to get to.

And those are things like you know, counting the amount of victimizations that are happening, looking at the breakdown of uh demographics uh of these victimizations, um, and then trying to spot trends in in in time and space, whether they were uh clustering around a certain time or geography.

We wanted to ensure that those kind of insights were made available.

And that kind of paved the way for the dashboard um to start getting uh developed, and that happened in 2019.

We brought on a team of analysts uh who began working with CPD to clean the data and understand it so that the data can be highly structured in a way for us to use different tools and and uh and build products that we'll we'll show here today.

And we uh in addition to working with CBD, we worked with the mayor's office and community balance intervention organizations to uh touch on the design elements and make sure that the dashboard was insightful, digestible, and and just uh interactive in in the way that uh folks like this task force who's focused on uh domestic violence or or other folks like um our balance intervention organizations that are focused on on gun violence uh that they could both yield um useful information.

So that uh endeavor lasted about two and a half years.

We launched the product in uh 2021, and today it's a living dashboard and it it's uh quite automated to maintain that CPD, but there's uh not a ton of uh manual um labor that has to go in there at this stage.

Okay, so from here I'll switch to the demonstration.

Yeah, oops.

Thank you.

While I pull this up, um I'll just note that I won't go over all the features and distinct uh tools of the dashboard today, but we we do have an extended uh webinar on our website, um, which I'll I'll share the link with everyone today uh where we kind of go into a lot more detail.

But just to orient you to the dashboard, we have uh four pages up here.

This is the landing page.

Um both this landing page and the violence and victim victimization trends page will have all of the data tools.

Uh the second page has some information on the strategy of violence reduction, and then uh importantly, we also share glossary and resources.

Uh that's where you're gonna find a lot of the definitions of the different types of uh violent crimes.

You'll see some information on how we we might have computed some of the the different metrics on here.

And the spirit of that was to make this a resource that um anyone from you know the normal day citizen to come in to a violence reduction intervention organization to be able to understand the data and and kind of uh amplify the interpretability of everything.

So, in in addition to having those uh definitions, we also offer some narrative throughout the dashboard that um allows someone to contextualize what tool is doing.

So I'll start with um this table here.

This is okay, great.

Thank you.

This is sort of uh the landing um tool where it sort of works as a report card to tell you what uh what the victimization rates are uh in a given time period compared to uh the previous year.

So here if we if we uh use this date range filter, we can filter this down to last year to get sort of a full year of data.

And then we have um geography type and focus geography, which sort of work in harmony.

So uh Jacoby Type, you'll you'll be able to choose between different uh boundaries like community areas, wards, uh, if you're working with CPD on any on any of your efforts, you might um opt to use some of the police boundaries, and then you can filter down to particular uh geographies within that type.

Uh so if you're interested in looking at specific community areas, you can kind of filter on those.

But I'm type filter.

So at the moment, the default setting is showing all victimizations in in the city of Chicago for 2025 to compare to 2024.

Um, and as you can see, and as I'm sure you've all heard, there's been a declining uh trend in things like homicide fatal shootings and all violent crime in general.

You can filter this down in domestic victims.

And this is a flag that's created by CBD that sort of screens the data and and tries to determine if there's ever an instance of domestic violence.

And what's interesting here, which uh I'm sure it's not a surprise, or or news rather, to um this task force is that the homicide victimizations and fatal shooting victimizations have gone up from 2024 to 2025.

Uh for fatal shootings in particular, uh they've gone up on the order of 56%.

So that's sort of the first tool.

I'll uh let's skip over to this tool, which is the victims um demographics, and what we can do is a similar thing where we can filter on 2025.

Uh suppose we're looking we're interested in looking at all violent crime, we can filter to that specific category, and then we can again filter on domestic victims to start to see uh who the most impacted population is.

Um so we can do that by age, by sex, and we can also do this by race.

And then another tool here that um I won't go through all the interactivity just to save some time, but this tool at the bottom is our safety gap map, which will offer the the per capita rates of different um types of crime and the applying to different filters you may be interested in.

And so if you wanted to suppose learn where domestic violence is happening the most in a particular time period, adjusting for the population, this would be the tool that you would want to use.

And then I'll close out by going to uh this other page that harbors the other data tools.

Um there's a specific map on here that I tend to use.

So let me just go through the interactions here, try to reveal some of the insight that we can make for domestic uh victims.

And what we have here on the left is going to be a map showing the the change of victimizations in uh fatal and non-fatal shootings.

And what we're gonna do is compare um 2024 to 2025.

So um one of the things that's interesting here is the right hand bar graph is going to show the annual uh victimization counts for the entire city.

So what we can see here is that the for fatal shooting and non-fatal shootings, the trend has gone downward um since the the peak in 2023.

But there are community areas in Chicago that are experiencing an increase, uh, which otherwise we would have known uh without the tool on the left.

So uh communities like Inglewood, um, the cluster communities on the west side here, and and some sort of scattered throughout the north and northwest side have experienced increases in uh domestic violence um as compared to some of their neighboring community areas that observe decreases.

So this is a super helpful tool in identifying those kinds of trends.

And then um again on this tool, I won't interact with everything, but this is a tool that will portray the victimization counts by day of week and and time of day.

And if there are any sort of reasons for you all to structure your resources where it's important to have these your resources available uh based on a particular um time, this will be a good tool to use when you want to identify if there's any like uh spikes in victimizations at a certain hour or a certain day of the week.

And um, Martin, I don't know if you have anything to share.

Uh I just closed by saying that um if if there are any questions that we can help answer about like the practical technical um side of of creating this dashboard or its ongoing maintenance, we'd be happy to follow.

Um thank you, Javier and Martin, so much for being here.

Um, and thank you for the presentation.

I think you guys know that we all use your dashboard almost every day, and um it's an invaluable tool to the city of Chicago.

We're hoping to build something similar for Chicago for County, so we'll be in touch.

Absolutely.

Um again, if anyone has any questions for them, please email taskforce at ccv.com and we'll be happy to pass those along.

So thank you again for being here.

Um, our next um presenter is Robert Owens from the civic committee.

Um, for those who are not aware of the civic committee of the commercial public Chicago, it's a very innovative new public private partnership.

Uh the civic committees then leading uh leading the charge in getting investments in violence reduction.

Um they're a major factor to the violence reduction we're seeing in in the city of Chicago.

Um and Robert has built um a data dashboard that's unique and then it is focusing on their efforts, but it crosses over both the city of Chicago and Cook County.

Um so thank you so much for being here, Robert.

Thank you, Katie, for the introduction, and thank you to the task force for the opportunity to be here.

Um, as Katie said, my name is Robert Owens.

I represent the 100 of the largest companies here in Chicago, either based in Chicago with a large presence in Chicago.

And the tool that I'm gonna share with you today is a collaborative project.

What do I need to do?

Okay, yeah.

Can overhear me.

It's better.

Um the tool that I'm here to share with you today is what we call the Chicago Public Safety Data Hub, which is a resource that is a collaborative project between the Civic Committee and Nork at the University of Chicago.

NORC is the National Opinion Research Center, their uh a research center, their bread and butter really is survey research, and you see that reflected on the website, but they do a lot of other important and powerful work um as well.

So I'm gonna talk you through the resources that are available here on this tool, and just as importantly from my perspective, what we are building towards this year and and beyond, because we launched this last year, and it's still very much a work in progress.

I will talk also about sort of what sets it apart, being the third presenter here.

You've seen a lot of data tools already.

I myself am a power user of both the OIG dashboards and the uh the City of Chicago uh crime lab dashboard.

I think they're phenomenal tools.

Um, and there's there's complementarity to them to what we have built and what they have built.

So I'll try to speak a little bit about that and how you should think about this tool in the in the landscape.

I'll say a little bit about how I think this is useful for getting at questions related to domestic violence, but I also don't want to presume uh too much that I know where your interests lie.

You know, there's a lot of data here, um, and I hope that you will explore it on your own afterwards and certainly come with uh with any questions.

I think that the power in a tool like this is that it creates an opportunity for people to discover what is is interesting and important to them and this task force.

We we certainly hope will be the users of the tool.

So let me start with the architecture of the site.

And I'm gonna give you, I'm just gonna give you uh stills and a presentation.

I'm not going to give an interactive presentation.

The URL is down there at the bottom, uh, shy public safety.org.

And I do hope you will go uh and explore it.

But just to keep us focused on what you can do with this, I'm I'm going to give you stills.

There's two main pieces of the site.

On one side, you have public and proprietary data related to public safety outcomes.

Um, and there's a few data sources that flow into that.

The City of Chicago open data portal is one.

We get a lot of information uh from there.

Uh a proprietary survey that NORC has run.

So that's private data that doesn't appear anywhere else out in the world except on this website on public sentiment is another, and I'll say a little bit more about what you see there and why we think that's important, why we think public sentiment, trust and um and feelings of safety um is an important public safety outcome in itself.

Is there is a little bit of information, um, a little bit of data here from the county.

And this is really just at the beginning of what we hope it will be eventually.

In the county in the last uh couple of years, you have the clerk's office putting out a new dashboard, um, the collective group of county criminal justice agencies um putting out a dashboard in collaboration with researchers at um at Loyola and the new state's attorney publishing data in a new interface and new platform uh than was available from the state's attorney before.

So we think about all of those groups as partners with us, uh as you know, shared collaborators in the common goal of of uh improving safety and improving transparency about public safety.

And one of the distinctive things about this website because of who we are, because of who the civic committee is, is that we hope to bring together all of those different types of data, uh city data, county data, um, and proprietary data developed by partners like Nork and also others.

A lot of the problems in public safety lie in between systems in the criminal justice system, between the work of the police who are city agency and the state's attorney prosecutors, the judiciary, the clerk, um, and so on.

And so we we are excited about how this can grow.

This Chicago crime data, as it's called on the website, as we as we get deeper and broader in uh in the data that we're bringing together.

The other half of this website is data on the civic committee's own programs and those outcomes.

So if you look on the right hand side of the page, we have a broad agenda in public safety with four major parts to it.

Supporting community violence intervention, something we call the hiring initiative, which is really a call on our member companies to do more to intentionally hire and reform their processes so that they create more employment opportunities in the south and west sides of the city.

Public safety infrastructure, which is a huge category, but you know, entails collaboration with all of the public safety agencies, certainly the police, certainly the state's attorney, and we hope other uh county stakeholders as well, to make investments in capability building um uh projects.

So, one that we have the Civic Committee has has funded with uh with partners, for example, is a workforce allocation study for the police department, um, a consent decree obligation is something that really builds capacity for the police that will come when it's published with with reams of of very interesting data that will make its way onto this dashboard, and then lastly, community economic development.

So the the two pieces of this website and this tool, linking public outcome data and data about our programs, um, is another distinguishing factor from the other tools that you've seen today.

We are we are trying to hold ourselves accountable, trying to you know use this data to put it out publicly and make it available for everybody who wants to take a look and in terms of where their interests lie, but also to drive a strategy, a broad-based strategy with these you know four large pillars and make adjustments as necessary.

If we we look at crime data in a granular way down to the down to the neighborhood, down to the block, and we see that you know changes in in crime levels are you know corresponding or not corresponding with the investments we've made in community violence intervention.

That's information we want to be part of the public discourse and part of driving our strategy as well.

So I will show you just a couple of pieces to give you a sense of what's here.

Um I'll show you a couple of pieces of the public safety outcome data and then just one piece briefly of our programmatic data as well.

And where I want to start is with the sentiment data, the survey data that NORC has collected for us.

Um I think we all know that you know trust and legitimacy of the police and the public safety institutions are important.

Um but it's one thing, very hard to measure uh public trust in police and in government.

And for another thing, that general concept of trust and legitimacy covers a lot of territory.

And so what we did with Nork was we built a survey that was out in the field last year.

There were about a thousand uh respondents in the sample across Chicago.

And we tried to get underneath that a little bit and ask people questions, not just about do you trust the police or do you trust the government, but do you trust uh the courts?

And when you do trust the police or don't, um, with respect to what specifically, what do you trust them to act constitutionally when they stop you?

Do you trust them to solve a problem when you call them?

Do you trust them to keep the city safe?

Those are all different questions, and they have different implications for how you might think about improving reporting levels around domestic violence just to connect it to the work of this group.

So this is um, you know, in my mind, this is really the first time we've had information at this level of granularity that is really uh trustable about public sentiment around safety in policing.

It's it's very hard to do, it's expensive.

Um has positioned as well as any research center in the country to do this well.

Um we're happy to have it as as part of our um our data hub.

We hope to make it dynamic over time to rerun the survey.

That's expensive too.

Um, but that would give us a lot of uh information over time about how perceptions of safety change over time, about how perceptions of legitimacy change over time.

Um that's something that we're committed to doing and and continuing to um to invest in.

Another piece of the outcome data that I want to draw attention to is we have data on violent crime by place and over time.

Um you've already seen a great resource, actually, two great resources.

Um, that Deborah did not dwell on it, but there's a lot of information about crime and arrests on the OIG dashboards, and then um Javier and Martin showed us the crime lab um tool, which focuses on crime data as well.

So this is uh right now what you have is uh on on this dashboard is long-term trends uh over crime and information at the community area level about where violent crime is is happening.

Um the crime lab dashboard is probably the better tool if you want to look at year over year comparisons for sort of targeted or specified time windows.

Um and it's also the better tool if you want a very granular breakdown of crime types.

They have lots of different crime types that you can look at there.

This is a um a better tool, a more accessible tool if you want to look at long-term trends.

So that's one thing that you're seeing on the slide.

And I also want to talk a little bit about where we're growing this uh in 2026.

We have funding to build this out so we it will take you from the community area level, which you have now on the dashboard, down to the down to the block level.

So very, very small um, you know, thousand foot uh long pieces of the city.

So you can you can really see um both geographically and over time where crime is focused.

Um we've known for a long time this is a durable finding and phenomenology that crime concentrates in specific places, and the certainly law enforcement Chicago Police Department, um, you know, they that informs their strategy.

We want this to be a tool that's very useful to them, and we will build it out to be useful to them.

The idea is that you will be able, if you imagine that map on the on the right-hand side and being able to make it much, much, much more granular.

So you can zoom in and zoom in and zoom in and look at Madison and Pulaski, or look at you know, just the downtown loop, or look at uh you know, any other area of the city, um, and then be able to see crime data not just in a snapshot, but over time reflected, you know, similar to the way that you see the trend on the left-hand side.

We can layer that with everything else that's on the Chicago open data portal, information about where there are vacant homes at the block level, information about where there are where 911 calls are coming, um, information about where arrests are being made.

So there's incredible latent power in the data that the city has already made available.

And now we have between the Civic Committee and North, we have an opportunity here, a very rich opportunity to make this more usable uh to the general public.

And I want to acknowledge the crime lab as well.

Um they did something very much like this.

It was an inspiration to uh to what we are planning to do in 2026 and released by the summit um in 2023.

You can still find it on their website.

Uh it's not doesn't bring you up to the present.

Um, but Javier and colleagues um shared both wisdom and shapefiles with us.

So thank you very much.

Um and and we're excited to sort of build this out.

Um, it'll be released in the in the summer, and this will take you much deeper.

Shifting to the other half of the website, if you like.

The other piece of the website, as I said, is devoted to what the civic committee's programs are.

And I just want to show you one example to give you a taste uh of what this looks like.

So this is proprietary data, and what you're looking at is outcomes that we consider important, KPIs, if you like, um, or the investments that the civic committee is making in uh getting its members to participate in what we call the hiring initiative, to hire more intentionally locally from the South and West Sides.

And that takes a few different forms.

It takes the form of working with our membership, big companies in Chicago, and it has taken the form of investing in workforce development organizations.

Um what you're looking at on the screen is data on job placements by two of our partners, uh Cara Collective and Skills for Chicago that do a lot of workforce development work and investment in uh preparing people uh for uh for jobs in the city of Chicago.

You're seeing data on the number of placements, where people have been placed, how much money has been invested by the civic committee and its partners in this initiative, and also things that go beyond the that initial point uh to look at um retention on the job.

This is again, you know, this is really this is the worst that will ever be.

It's going to grow and grow and get better and deeper as this initiative goes on over time.

Our hiring initiative is closely tied to what we're doing to try to support community violence intervention.

Um we we are working very hard to try to with the community violence intervention organizations that the civic committee and partners are funding to try to bridge their program participants to being workforce ready, and that's part of this effort as well.

Um that in turn has a you know has a thread of connection to uh to domestic violence.

And so there may be data here that's that's interesting to you all.

Um one point I did not make on the on the previous slide, but let me go back there briefly.

Let me connect this to uh um to domestic violence as well.

Um you saw from the inspector general uh call for service data, which does signal fairly fairly well in a way that you can you know, at least to a first approximation can understand calls that relate to domestic violence.

In terms of crime data, um it's less clear that the categorization of the you know Illinois uniform crime recording codes, don't distinguish um in a totally clear way between domestic and and public violence.

You have some indication, um, but that's that's an area that I think the civic committee is interested in working with all of all of its partners, public agencies, the the county board um, and others, this task force to to try to get what we can out of the data that's available, even though as is often the case, the data is not perfect for what you want to use it for.

I just I flag that as um you know something that we can continue to talk about.

I would be um grateful to continue talking with uh with anybody in the room today about that, if that's of interest.

Um that's all I have.

My email is at the bottom.

Again, the URL is at the bottom.

It's a website that's designed to be used and designed to be explored.

So please uh jot it down and take a look and happy to take any questions.

Robert, thank you so much.

Um that was really amazing.

And um, I really also love the survey portion uh to the public speaker and Lena's point.

We really need to figure out how to continue to incorporate survivors input and how they feel about the system and all of the people in it.

So we really appreciate that.

We'll definitely be in touch.

Um so thank you so much for being here today.

Um up next, we have Amy Clax from LifeSpan.

Amy is a translator uh and really a powerhouse in the field of advocacy and providing services for victims and allowing giving them the pathway to be survivors.

Uh life span is one of the unique providers in that improvise services to both civil floor and criminal court and domestic relations court.

So we're so happy and honored to have you here today, Amy.

So thank you.

I'm not here to talk about data.

What I am here to talk about is a little bit about lifespan, what we do, and specifically domestic violence advocacy.

So I like I said, I'm the executive director of LifeSpan, and we are a comprehensive domestic and sexual violence organization that has offices in displays in Chicago.

We have advocacy offices in Meadows Courthouse, Skokie Courthouse, and we periodically provide services in Bridgeview.

Now, what makes lifespan unique really is our integration of three core direct services.

So we provide counseling to survivors and their children.

We have about nine attorneys who represent survivors in orders of protection, civil no contact orders, domestic relations.

So we're talking about divorces, parentage, custody, and also immigration.

We have six staff who provide criminal court advocacy.

And we do a great deal of outreach and education.

Now, when I started at LifeSpan in 1998, my first role was as a staff attorney on a special project at 13th in Michigan with the state's attorney's office and Hull House on a project called TAC.

Now TAC was is a model throughout the country.

It was researched and studied, it showed that it reduced recidivism and really it just saved lives.

But TAC, as it was in 1998, is no longer in existence in that form due to funding.

Now LifeSpan also has and participates in two multidisciplinary team efforts in collaboration with the state's attorney's office, with CPD, with resilience, with CAWC, and with family rescue.

Now I tell you about that, not just because I'm so amazingly proud of the work that we do at Lifespan and how innovative and impactful it is.

But also I tell you this because I want to tell you how complex domestic violence is, and how we really need a public-private partnership and collaboration.

Also tell you this to demonstrate the importance of sustained ongoing funding.

And finally, also to show you perhaps what it doesn't provide, what those projects don't do.

They do not address the need for affordable housing, for survivor funds, for shelters, and a variety of other needs by survivors.

Because we don't have enough staff.

Now I'm here to talk about advocacy.

And I can't talk about advocacy without first starting with the Illinois Domestic Violence Act.

And this section in particular is extremely telling.

So as you can see, right in the Illinois Domestic Violence Act, it says it recognized that the legal system has been ineffective in dealing with family violence in the past, and that the nature of the criminal nature and the dynamics of domestic violence are still widespread, and still there's failure to protect and assist victims.

It really sort of codified the importance and the role and the parameters around a criminal court advocate or a civil court advocate.

So an advocate.

So the statute defines what an advocate does.

This is really sort of a bare minimum of what the advocate does, but know that in order to be an advocate, you have to receive 40 hours of training in domestic violence alone and crisis intervention and other related areas.

And you have to be providing services to victims through a domestic violence program.

And when you have those things, then it creates confidentiality.

So confidentiality is really one of the key distinctions in everything I'm going to talk about today, and what it affords survivors when they're working with an advocate.

So really the importance of confidentiality is it really is critical to safety in all aspects.

First and foremost, it encourages help seeking.

So if a survivor is seeking help in any way, shape, or form.

If there was not privacy and confidentiality in order to maintain their safety and for them to truly say share their stories, their situations, their needs, so that they can create a safety plan and a plan towards long-term safety, then there would be a chilling effect on that.

Also, it really restores autonomy.

As we know in the dynamics of domestic violence and power and control, that survivors really lose their autonomy.

And so confidentiality really affords a survivor to tell their story to who they want, when they want, and to what degree.

Next to the survivors.

What advocates do.

All right.

So this includes an explanation of rights and remedies.

So that means it's not just rights and remedies in the Illinois Domestic Violence Act.

So it doesn't tell them how they can get just how they get over protection and all the protections that they can get on the Illinois Domestic Violence Act.

But they also explain to them their rights in other areas, the Victim Economic and Safety Security Act, the Safe Homes Act, their rights under the crime victims bill of rights, and a number of other remedies that are available to them.

And that's important because if survivors need information so that they can make a meaningful decision and understand potential ramifications of their actions, especially when they're engaged in the court process.

Advocates help inform survivors about the criminal and the civil process.

All right.

So if there's confusion among all of us, can you imagine if you're a survivor in the midst of your trauma and you go to court with three small children in tow?

English is not your first language, you have a broken rib, and you're all by yourself.

So keep that in mind as I'm trying to walk you through some of the different systems that survivors go through.

Let's start with criminal court.

So I'm gonna tell you a little bit about the public players, and this is not an exhausted list.

Now I'm also gonna preface this with their state's attorney, they're life screen has a fantastic relationship with the state's attorney's office and victim witness, but their rules do not always align with survivors' needs and wishes.

It's not a criticism.

Now the state's journey's office, you can see they represent the people of the state of Illinois, especially the residents of Cook County.

That's not necessarily an individual interest.

Like I said, the interests may not align.

And then victim witness, there are victim witnesses in courts who do some things like advocates do.

They help them navigate the criminal court process, they explain the rights and uh remedies, information, resource.

They can help prepare orders of protection, and they do a lot of court notifications, right?

So you know when your next court date is, what happened in court.

Now, according to their website, they fantastically serve a hundred thousand victims and witnesses each year.

But the reality is there are only about 73 victim witnesses, and only about 66 of them are actually in the courtroom, they're under resourced.

And keep in mind when I talk about criminal court, so there's criminal court and all those suburban courthouses, there's criminal court at 26 in California, there's criminal court for survivors at 555.

And each one of those courts has different needs, and they have different services that are available.

So, how does a private criminal court advocate work within that system with survivors?

So, again, survivor-led, survivor focused, they help them navigate the system.

So when I say navigate the system, I don't know if you've ever had to go to court before, but it as a layperson is overwhelming, it is scary, it's confusing.

And a survivor, just so you know, they're a complaining witness, a complaining witness, a witness to the crime that's being charged.

So if you're a survivor sitting in criminal court, despite the best efforts, often you feel as though you were the least important person in the room.

When you probably have more at stake, including your very life and the life of your children than anyone else in that courtroom.

So an advocate will sit with survivor and be with them so they are not alone.

They will explain to them what is happening, why it is happening, what their role is and what their rights are.

And then on top of that, do the safety planning.

And also they advocate.

So earlier when I said that a survivor's interest may not be in line with the state's interest, or maybe they just need someone to help them have a voice in what they do want in the outcome of a criminal case, what remedies they do want in order of protection, if they even want an order of protection, and also they do follow-up services.

So they don't end that day in court.

This is a long-lasting relationship that, like I said, builds the trust.

Okay, that was criminal court, but we have another system.

We have civil court.

So I'm gonna talk a little bit about the public players and that.

All right, hold on, because a survivor interacts with and what services that are available to them depend on what civil court they're going to.

So there's civil court that assists survivors with orders of protection, as well as domestic relations, so their divorces, their parentage, their custody, their visitation, at all the suburban courts, and also at the daily center.

You need a separate presentation on that.

Now, in at the daily center and in the suburban courts, largely about the only public service, it is the clerks will provide survivors with the paperwork to file an order of protection.

Now, so that means remember advocates, I mean advocates have confidentiality, public court players, the attorneys, the clerks, everyone.

There is no confidentiality.

Okay.

So we know about the domestic violence court in Chicago.

So that's where survivors go, not only for criminal cases, but also if they're seeking an order of protection when they don't have a divorce or they don't have a parentage case.

Now domestic violence court has a number of services that are provided to assist survivors navigate that process.

They have a help desk that helps screen survivors.

What that means is in part, they are speaking to a survivor as they appear.

So they come through male detectors, told to go to the help desk.

Help desk is determining first and foremost, are you here because of criminal or are you here because of civil?

And do you want an order protection?

And then if so, sometimes they then can refer them to private advocates and to some legal aid, or maybe they have to refer them to domestic relations court over at the daily center.

And so they also hand out the paperwork and receive it back and give it to the clerk to file.

So they're sort of managing all this paperwork for an order of protection.

There's also litigant services associates.

They're a little unclear at all of what they're to do, but the intent behind them is good.

And they are also there to perhaps give a bit more resources, including like a self-guide, you know, self-guide to help fill out the orders of protection.

Okay.

But again, none of those players, there's no confidentiality.

And also they're not allowed to make any recommendations.

So let's say a survivor, just so you know this, this, this.

This is the packet to fill out to get an order of protection.

This there's 10 pages of instruction.

So they go up, the survivors like they go up and they speak to someone at the help desk.

The help desk can't give them any recommendations.

Like they're not there to help them interpret the remedies that are available to them.

They're just not allowed to.

So that's a key distinction from a private advocate who can help them make informed decisions.

Okay, there's another place.

There's another place.

There is an after hours court for survivors who need to seek an order protection after normal court hours.

So that too is yet another system.

And that's largely done online through the clerk's office with resources provided through the Illinois legal aid online.

And then they do via these virtual systems, refer them to some survivors through the Illinois domestic violence through advocates for the Illinois domestic violence help.

Okay.

Now we have advocates, they're civil court advocates, and they're the criminal court advocates.

So I talked a bit about criminal court advocates.

Now, civil court advocates again help survivors navigate these systems and do all the other things.

Here, more so in Cook County, the advocates are helping the survivors fill out the paperwork and doing the follow-up services, individualized with experience and knowledge, so they can make meaningful recommendations to the survivors and help them really walk through the impact of some of the remedies they may be seeking.

Now it's on the courts, you need to both look at it yourself.

Now this entire presentation has been about advocacy and advocates.

That is just one player within these systems.

What I don't have time to tell you today, because that is a presentation all on so is an other, there's other advocacy, attorneys do advocacy, but they also do representation.

And quite frankly, if I were a survivor and I had children with my abuser, if I had uh any concerns regarding access to weapons, if I had a pending case, a divorce case, a parentage case, or even a prior case, I would not recommend that they proceed with an order protection without the guidance of an attorney.

Now, how privileged of that is me to say, because I already told you earlier with all the attorneys at lifestyle, we still turn away 60% of the people who need our help.

There's not enough help.

And one significant problem with that is the mere decision to file an order protection, can have legal ramifications that a survivor may not even be aware of.

There again, bring the attorneys in.

I'm happy to do it, but I would encourage you to also hear from other legal aid service providers who work in the domestic violence realm.

So it's then justice, legal aid Chicago, Single Aid Society.

Have them swimming talking about that.

There's minor help desks, none of them can provide representation in any of the courthouses, and then there are also private attorneys.

Okay.

So what do survivors need?

Survivors need you to listen to them.

And when I say listen to them, I'm not just saying listen to their stories so that you can figure out how you can fix the problem.

They need to be, you need to listen to them, but they also need to be an active player in any decision making that is happening.

They also need to be informed and receive the exact same information that the task force receives so that they can have meaningful input into any plans that you make.

You also need to listen to domestic violence organizations.

There are, like I said, Chicago is a rich area.

Cook County, even richer.

So I can represent just a mere portion of what I've experienced with survivors and what I have witnessed.

But if you want to know how you can help things in Markham or in Bridgeview and enrolling meadows, know that it's not cookie cutter.

So you need to speak to domestic violence organizations within those communities before you make any decisions.

And survivors need systems accountability.

So glad today was data because part of that accountability is transparency of data, especially from the court system.

Part of systems accountability is private input from domestic violence organizations.

We have a long history, and it's really one of our main tenants is holding systems accountable to the needs of survivors.

Also requires a multifaceted approach.

I told you this is complex.

No, this is not just a court system issue.

This is not, we talked about criminal court today.

We caught there's data on CPD, we're talking about civil court, but those are just one minor aspect of the needs of survivors.

So every really form of government, every department in Cook County needs to do something.

Also listen to some of the departments who are doing this every day.

Judge Rice is probably one of the best things that's happened.

And I'm sure she's told you what she needs.

So you need to listen.

Most importantly, now I'm not even mosting it, they're all important.

We need sustained commitment.

That means you need to hardwire these things.

And they're not allowed to expand or be re-implemented, all due to funding.

Great.

You are welcome to reach out to me, but not just me, like I said.

Talk to the network.

Talk to other domestic violence organizations in your communities and ask them what they need and what survivors need in their communities.

Amy, thank you so much.

Can you just stay for one second?

We're gonna see if anyone has any questions, but just to Amy's point, I think obviously there's a need for more services.

We know all of the um presentations today touched on crime.

We have really good transparency around crime, especially in the city of Chicago.

Um, but there's a need for more transparency and data around domestic violence and gender-based violence and just violence against women in general, uh, which will help towards that sustained funding.

Um share Dugan or Chris and I, do you guys have any questions?

I mean for me, I would uh be very interested in um knowing um the overlap of organizations because it seems like over the past, I would say even from the pandemic on, we've seen more coordination between domestic violence organizations.

There's been a collective push to ensure that everybody's working together, that information is out there, that funding is prioritized.

I've seen that much more from 2020 to now, although we have seen obviously at the federal level a decrease.

So I'd be interested in knowing like how um there is coordination in non-for-profits, especially around um advocates.

Um, one of my first uh amendments as a Cook County commissioner when I first uh became a commissioner back in uh 2018 was to create this with within the state attorney.

So to solidify something, to have not only navigators but advocates within our county system.

So I know that um there's there's a lot there, and there's a lot of organizations.

So for me, it'd be interested, you know, to know that specifically um demographic wise and how folks are able to cover because um to your point, we need to talk to other organizations.

We need to know maybe what lifespan covers and maybe geographically or what areas and um what are the other organizations that we must also uplift and talk to because those are gonna be their um prescribed according to where they're representing who they represent.

Um, and I will say another important note um uh to kind of uplift now is that each organization does something different.

Yes, they may have um like uh attorneys, they may have advocates, they may have other, but some are organizations just may do the advocacy part.

Some may have more attorneys or some may not have any.

So I think for us to map that out and be able to best support organizations and contain that uh consistent funding.

Um, for us, I think that that would be important for the task force to kind of map out.

Um I appreciate again everything you've shared.

I think it's extremely important.

Uh, but those are just things and thoughts that are kind of going through my head right now.

I think there was questions in there.

Great.

Thank you.

So you covered so many great topics.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um, know that domestic violence organizations, we're a tight group.

You'll see that when it comes to advocacy for sure.

So we though there is a challenge in individual organizations to some degree regarding advertising their services, right?

Yeah.

I would love to advertise my services, but I'm already turning away 60% of the people who are contacting us for services.

And we had to limit our legal intake to two days a week because we didn't want people calling all day long, getting their hopes up that we could assist them.

What we rely heavily on when it comes to informing survivors of services available to them is the Illinois domestic violence deadline.

That is the best and perfect hub for that.

So I often reverse survivors to go there first.

Now, know them.

Yes, some organizations do the same thing, and some only provide one form of service.

Know that, even if there's, I would never say that there's an overlap of services because there aren't enough services available.

We certainly aren't fighting each other over clients by any means.

Um if you wanted a collective map of who's covering what, you know, we do have the network in Chicago, which is a great resource, and also the Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence, because one, it would be in line with their missions to provide that in a comprehensive way.

And also they have the capacity to do that.

Thank you.

Thank you for being here today.

Um, and for all of this information.

I think to the from the domestic violence survivors that we've had a lot of coordination with, the number one issue we face is like emergency housing.

Is that if they need to get up and then get out now, and then you know, we can help find them attorneys or connections to services.

But it seems like housing always is the hardest part of that emergency response.

And so I think if they kind of move forward, we need to prioritize a number of things, housing really being one of them to give somebody a stable place, at least to be able then to go to court and then feel some of the services that they need.

Um, but if they're still forced to live with their visa, you know, I think there's such a chilling effect on them seeking your services and seeking services within the county and the city, but sometimes they they can't or they won't.

So I just feel like housing housing is really a hard topic to develop, develop the housing, and then make sure that there's sufficient amount of it.

So I think if we go forward, we should continue to prioritize everything that we have said here today about housing is such a main component.

I agree wholeheartedly.

And when we talk about housing, we're not just talking about shelter, we're talking about affordable housing.

Um that's why I mentioned this isn't just about criminal court civil court orders of protection.

If we can one of the main reasons that survivors stay in an abusive relationship, is because if they are not within that relationship, their basic needs are not met.

So we just go back to Maslow's hierarchy of need, right?

Housing.

So we need shelter, we need food.

So that's what this is a multi-faceted approach.

I was just gonna add some.

So I just wanted to add one thing about if we could think about how to coordinate um with all the overlapping data that we have to pinpoint the overlapping data on orders of protection.

Where are the areas that have the highest need or have filed the highest number of orders of protection and not maybe had the follow-up on it?

Some of the data showed closed cases, and then in those areas, what uh what is the overlapping orders of protection that are filed in areas that might have need to services that like a lifespan could provide?

Like if we could just get really laser focused on something like that, where we say we go to this zip code, whatever it is, and say the had the highest number of order protections, but because we were able to intervene and provide all these services and to also bring together all of the resources, we were able to um not only improve the orders of protections of I guess file rate or what have you, but also provide services to those who need the orders of protection, whatever those services look like.

So I'm just throwing that out there as an idea.

Well, okay, so thank you for your presentation.

Um, I think now we're gonna start closing down and wrapping it up and asking for questions from anyone in the audience um to see if we can answer some of the presenters might have left, but maybe just to get an idea of what direction we want to go in for the next meetings based off of the information that was provided today.

And I am happy to open it up to questions, Commissioner Naya.

So I kind of was left with on the data part was um if we're able to get uh police department data, and when we're looking at it to get a more holistic, bigger kind of data point for Cook County, does that mean we need to go into MOUs with individual law enforcement agencies?

And I guess that was my only question because I wasn't really sure I that is important, transparency is important, but now we're dealing with how many municipalities and how many, yeah.

So I guess that was like my only thing, and you know, if that's the barrier that we're facing, then it seems like a big one.

But I think like it's it's it's better to know that that is the barrier um for us to move forward to have something more um, I think complete.

No, absolutely, and just again, kudos to the Chicago Police Department, they've put so much time and resources over the last decade or more.

Um, but there is state repositories um to answer question, Chris Shiranaya.

Um, I think what the work um we really need to focus it uh on would be how to be able to update daily um instead of getting quarterly or your annual reports.

Um, and then also how can we bifurcate current crime data and and and get numbers for domestic related data that might be more the training on the law enforcement side to accurately code and and make sure that they're recording domestic if um you know there's un salved or on uh murders that are not cleared, there's always going to be discrepancies in the data where we're not capturing domestic violence as a whole.

Um, but I think right now we're just not even close to understanding the scope of it.

So I think the third presentations today obviously show it could be done um and done well and incorporate feedback.

So uh so grateful for them to come here, but also just to get ideas of what we need and what uh the county, the city, and the state uh combined dashboard would look like um and how to get inputs from from everybody that has really valuable data.

or uh murders that are not cleared there's always going to be discrepancies in the data where we're not capturing domestic violence as a whole um but i think right now we're just not even close to understanding the scope of it so i think the third presentations today obviously show it could be done um and done well and incorporate feedback so uh so grateful for them to come here but also just to get ideas of what we need and what uh the county the city and the state uh combined dashboard would look like um and how to get inputs from from everybody that has really valuable data so katie since i do you have any input i know the other lab like the chicago public safety hub have data i don't know i know they're not here that's not you but um do you have any input on local municipalities who feed in data to your uh data portal no no sorry we we only get from chicago okay yeah okay i wanted to echo your point though about uh being trying to make an effort to synthesize the information of positive dashboards like for instance looking at uh the concentration of word differ actually yeah sorry we're all about the microphone here i'm trying to speak up now it's because they're recording so thank you i i just wanted to echo what the commissioner voice about trying to make an effort to synthesize the information across the dashboards uh what i noticed about the ig's dashboard is that you can go in there and identify the communities that are are um observing orders of protection uh levels at high volumes and see if there's a parallel with with that and the victimization right that the bias project dashboard offers for instance and if there's any like um inconsistencies and and in those you can kind of identify areas that might need more support or or things of that nature but is that that way important efforts and this identification yeah I mean I love data and so that excites me to be able to fine-tune something where we could come out with a number and the numbers said because of ABC we did XYZ thing so thank you anyone have any other questions um or feedback we can take right now as we talked about this is an ongoing process obviously so there's a lot of information to synthesize and do something with so sometimes things come to me in the middle of the night and I write it down so if that happens to you write it down and send it to us and put it on that uh e-blast but there's a lot of things I think that we can coordinate across different departments and I think the biggest goal is to coordinate something that includes more of put county into the data that the city of chicago already has and so if we have half of it from a county standpoint if we got the other half it would just make such a meaningful impact especially when we look at reduction rates and and how to improve within the court system and then all the other systems that are involved and the advocates that would know where to go I know you said that each different courthouse has different focuses that also should be a goal to streamline um that what happens at one courthouse happens at all courthouses.

So that would be another thing I think we can hopefully address here at the um with the task force alderments of virus do you want anything no just a final note that um I want to thank all the presenters who came today very thorough data that you are compiling with the inspector general um the time lab and the civic committee very thorough data I'm interested to see how all that could be cross reference so that we have accurate data coming through.

And I think also with all of these um services and resources we want to make sure that um people are are getting help out there when when there is a call so I just want to thank all the departments for being here and for listening to cook county commissioner down miller for presiding so thank you all.

Yeah well with that then this meeting is adjourned I want to thank everyone for being here today thank you katie for bringing these excellent presenters to us today alderman Tavarus thank you for your partnership Commissioner Naya Commissioner Degman thank you for being here and every department that's here so the takeaway messages we have a lot of work to do and I know a lot of it's gonna happen not in the meetings so let's remember that everything doesn't have to happen here.

So we will be uh compiling information putting together presentations and and working in our working groups to actually come up with recommendations which I'm really excited about I'm excited about making a difference and thank you to the survivors who are here I know all of you didn't get to speak necessarily but thank you for raising the issues that are important to you and hopefully we can integrate those and make them uh something that we can do something with so all right have a great day this meeting is adjourned.