Chloe Vitale

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Chloe Vitale

Nonpartisan

Chicago Police District Council District 12

Tenure

2023 - Present

Term ends

2027

Years in position

2

Report an officeholder change

Elections and appointments

Last elected

February 28, 2023

Education

Bachelor's

UCLA, 2017

Contact

Campaign website

Chloe Vitale is a member of the Chicago Police District Council in Illinois, representing District 12. She assumed office on May 2, 2023. Her current term ends on May 4, 2027.

Vitale ran for election to the Chicago Police District Council to represent District 12 in Illinois. She won in the general election on February 28, 2023.

Vitale completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Chloe Vitale earned a bachelor's degree from UCLA in 2017.

Elections

2023

See also: City elections in Chicago, Illinois (2023)

General election

General election for Chicago Police District Council District 12 (3 seats)

The following candidates ran in the general election for Chicago Police District Council District 12 on February 28, 2023.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Leonardo Quintero (Nonpartisan)	22.7	12,327
✔		Chloe Vitale (Nonpartisan)	19.4	10,556
✔	Submit photo	Michelle Page (Nonpartisan)	18.0	9,789
		William Guerrero (Nonpartisan)	15.7	8,535
	Submit photo	John Donatelli (Nonpartisan)	13.0	7,052
	Submit photo	Juan Lopez (Nonpartisan)	11.3	6,139

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 54,398
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Campaign themes

2023

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Chloe Vitale completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Vitale's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Chloe Vitale is a City Bureau Documenter and proud union member (BAC local 21). She has her Bachelors in Sociology from UCLA and is a community advocate and staunch Anti-racist. She campaigned to pass ECPS (the historic ordinance that creates this external police oversight system) when it was Civilian Police Accountability Council (#CPACnow!). She believes in a focus on violence prevention, mental health care, and community alternatives to policing as complimentary approaches to the nuanced problem of crime. Chloe is running as a slate with Michelle Page and Leonardo Quintero.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• External police oversight is vital to public safety.
• Community members deserve a say in the way our communities are policed, both through democratically elected positions like this and restorative justice alternatives to policing.
• The only way to build community trust in the police is through accountability and transparency.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

This historic election is the first of its kind, and an opportunity to address a system of policing that has been operating illegitimately with no external oversight. It is crucial that these district councils remain fair and impartial bodies without former police officers and obstruction by the Fraternal Order of Police if the system is to have any legitimacy.

The ECPS ordinance was not written as a "trust building" exercise. Trust is something that must be earned. The way you earn trust is by doing the right thing, consistently. The way to build trust in a system is through transparency and accountability, and the only way to have true accountability is with external oversight.

Violence prevention cannot rest on the police, who are responders. Police do not prevent crime, they respond to it. Violence interrupters, restorative justice program development, and community-led initiatives are ancillary programs which would prevent harm and allow police to focus on clearing criminal cases.

Armed police officers are not appropriate first responders for mental health crises. It should be at the discretion of mental health care first responders if they need CPD accompaniment.

Policing accounts for about 50% of the city's budget when settlements for police misconduct are included, and residents deserve to have a say in how that money is spent.

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