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Police hiring, training, and disciplinary requirements in Chicago, Illinois

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This page provides an overview of policies related to the hiring, training, and discipline of police officers in Chicago, Ill. It is part of an analysis of police union collective bargaining agreements and related arrangements with police unions concerning hiring, training, and disciplinary requirements in the 50 states and top 100 cities by population.

Background

Ballotpedia in 2023 examined the collective bargaining agreements, statutes, and regulatory codes governing the 50 states and the top 100 US cities by population through the lens of a series of research questions related to police hiring, training, and discipline.

Some of the hiring, training, and discipline standards for police officers not established by statutes or regulations arise from negotiations with police unions. Those negotiations are often codified in collective bargaining agreements (CBAs). Those agreements are the contracts that states and cities sign following negotiations with police unions. Some states and cities restrict collective bargaining, but may still negotiate with police unions using other methods. After negotiating with the unions, those jurisdictions sometimes establish police standards through documents including memoranda of understanding or meet and confer agreements.

Results

The tables below link to each question Ballotpedia used to analyze the states and cities and indicate how Chicago handles police hiring, training, and discipline. To see the provisions Ballotpedia used to support these results, click here.

CBA basics

CBA basicsResults
Is the current CBA publicly available online?YES
Is there a CBA with the police union?YES

Discipline and accountability

Discipline and accountabilityResults
Does the CBA forbid the transfer or reassignment of an officer as a form of discipline?NO
Do officers have a right to request third-party arbitration for grievances, including over disciplinary actions?YES

Condition: Disciplinary action can be appealed through the grievance/arbitration procedure;

Selection: Both parties must agree on an arbitrator; Provider: If the parties cannot agree on an arbitrator, the American Arbitration Association will provide a list of seven neutral arbitrators;

Arbitrator authority: The arbitrator may only make decisions related to the specific issue presented

Officers can appeal to arbitration for reprimands and recommendations for suspensions.

Does the CBA contain provisions related to discipline for misconduct?YES

Primary discipline authority: City of Chicago, Police Department;

Types: Suspension, Demotion, discharge, other disciplinary action; Restricted aspects: N/A;

Challenge/appeal process: Union grievance procedure

Officer shall be informed immediately prior to investigation of allegation, and has the right to legal/union representation. Outlines alternative to discipline, termed "Summary Punishment", which is either a reprimand or excuse from work for 1-3 days without pay. Compensatory time may be used for this.

Does the CBA explicitly allow for a state ombudsman outside particular police departments to hold law enforcement officers accountable for misconduct?NO

Legal limitations or provisions

Legal limitations or provisionsResults
Does the city CBA prohibit felons from becoming law enforcement officers?NO
Are there any statutes or regulations that prohibit collective bargaining with police unions?NO

Training and counseling

Training and counselingResults
Does the CBA require or incentivize college or post-secondary education?YES

Allows employees to receive tuition reimbursement for extra-departmental education at an accredited college or university

Does the CBA require or incentivize law enforcement officers to learn first aid skills?NO
Does the CBA have provisions related to firearms training?NO
Does the CBA have provisions related to training with tasers or other nonlethal weapons?NO
Does the CBA require law enforcement officers to learn any martial arts?NO
Does the CBA require law enforcement officers to submit to regular psychological counseling/evaluation?NO

There is a psychological review under the grievance procedure

Does the state/city CBA require law enforcement officers to do driving training regularly?NO
Does the state/city CBA require law enforcement officers to do driving training regularly?NO
Does the CBA require law enforcement officers to take regular mental health training?NO

Community relations and oversight

Community relations and oversightResults
Does the CBA reference citizen review boards?NO
Does the CBA have provisions related to community policing?YES

Mentions Community Policing Officers

Investigations

InvestigationsResults
Does the CBA contain provisions related to misconduct investigations?YES
Does the CBA require notice to officers of investigations?YES

Conditions: Written notice;

Timeline: N/A;

Content: Must include the nature of complaint and names of complainants; the identity of the person in charge of the investigation, first and second interrogator, and if audio will be recorded.

Does the CBA determine a timeline for investigations?NO
Does the CBA contain provisions related to compensation during misconduct investigations?YES

Initial investigations will be conducted while an officer is on-duty.

Evidence and records

Evidence and recordsResults
Does the CBA have provisions related to the use of body-worn cameras or body-worn camera video evidence?NO
Does the CBA regulate processes for retaining officer disciplinary records?NO

Record storage: N/A;

Storage authority: N/A; Types of records: Disciplinary history files; Timeline: N/A; Access and use: Officer has access;

Use in decisions: N/A

Qualifications and evaluation

Qualifications and evaluationResults
Does the CBA require performance evaluations?NO
Does the CBA restrict licensing procedures for law enforcement officers or departments?NO

Union authority

Union authorityResults
Does the CBA limit union authority to pay and benefits issues?NO
Does the CBA give the union the power to approve or disapprove new training programs for law enforcement officers?NO
Does the CBA have provisions involving the union in the process for promotions, unit assignments, and transfers?YES

City retains the right to hire, promote, train, transfer, and assign; City will inform union for any appointment, selection and promotion positions prior to initiating the process, will provide union with officer names appointed to said positions

See also

Footnotes

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