A long-awaited analysis of the Chicago Police Department’s staffing and deployment calls for the hiring of hundreds more officers while urging scores of other positions be shifted to civilians. Citing ...

A staffing analysis found “real and uneven staffing pressures” within the Chicago Police Department and recommended hiring 270 additional officers and 90 sergeants while shifting about 600 sworn ...

A state study recommends that Etna and Reserve form a regional police department, while also finding that doing so will cost each municipality more for police services. The Governor’s Center for Local ...

A study of budgets in over 400 American cities over the last 5 years shows that, despite persistent claims by politicians, pundits, and police unions, there was no mass defunding of police. Police ...

The study, conducted by Matrix Consulting Group, was commissioned by the City Council in February 2024 to find ways to close gaps between police response times in different neighborhoods.