Take Action

Make a difference! See below on the actions you can take to improve our public safety system:

  • Use this one-pager to find out how you can take action today to help our immigrant neighbors!

  • CPD has launched a status page to provide the public with latest updates on the Workforce Allocation Study.

    It also gives community members the opportunity to directly engage with CPD about the Workforce Allocation Study. Ask your questions here.

    If interested, we encourage residents to ask: “How will District Council Members be used to help community engagement?”

    Thank you for your input!

  • The Crisis Assistance Response and Engagement (CARE) team provides critical mental health crisis support—but its funding ends at the end of the year. You can help ensure its future by spreading the word and advocating for continued funding.

    Ways to Get Involved:

    1. Full Slide Deck (25-30 min) – Share this with groups you’re part of! It covers mental health crisis care, CARE program details, successful models from other cities, and advocacy steps. Feel free to personalize it, but please keep the QR codes the same to track engagement and updates. Be sure to pause on the advocacy slides so attendees can take action during the meeting.

    2. Short Slide Deck (7-10 min)– A condensed version focusing on CARE and next steps.

    3. Video Presentation – Prefer not to present? Host a watch party and view this video together.

    4. One-Pager – Print and distribute this to your community, encouraging them to scan the QR code and complete the advocacy steps.

    5. Email the Mayor and Your Alderman - This link will take you to a draft letter to send. You can also write your own. Ask them to ensure that CARE gets funded into the future.

    6. Email the CCPSA Commission - This link will take you to a draft letter to send. You can also write your own. Ask them to formally recommend that City Council expand the CARE program.

    7. Commitment Card – Let us know how you plan to get involved!

    Your efforts can help keep this vital program running—thank you for your support!

  • The City of Chicago has launched a free and voluntary camera registration program open to anyone who lives or operates a business in Chicago. If you have a private security camera that captures the public way and you are interested in assisting in an investigation in the event of a crime in your neighborhood, you can register your camera with the Chicago Police Department. By registering your camera, you are simply allowing the Chicago Police Department to contact you in the event of a crime in your area. The Chicago Police Department will not have direct access to your camera system and cannot access camera footage without your consent. There is no requirement to provide footage at any time.

    Learn more and take action here!

  • Join us for our next 19th Police District Council Monthly Meeting!

    RSVP here!

  • Each Chicago Police District holds beat meetings on a regular basis, in which beat residents may voice their concerns and learn more about safety incidents in their neighborhood.

    Visit our 019 Town Hall Resource Page to find your beat and next beat meeting!

Join us for Office Hours and provide us with your ideas on how to improve our community’s public safety system:

See some of the work we’ve accomplished recently:

  • We’re taking a deep dive into 911 call data. We know that officers in the 19th Police District get hundreds of thousands of 911 calls each year. But what are those calls for?

    We’re working to answer that question via data across more than 3 ½ years of 911 calls for service in the 19th Police District.

    Take a look at our findings here.

  • We’ve solicited your ideas and from others in our community to understand what we should prioritize. Doing so, we formed a plan of over 40 goals to work through during our time as your District Councilors.

    Learn more about this initiative, the current status of each goal, and more by clicking here.

  • We urged the City Council to pass an ordinance to will implement a CPD Workforce Allocation Study—and it passed unanimously!

    Click through our presentation below to understand:

    • What a CPD Workforce Allocation Study is

    • Why our community needs a CPD Workforce Allocation Study

    • What questions our community wants answered through a CPD Workforce Allocation Study

    Learn more here!

  • We, as a community, advocated for our 19th District Alders to vote down the private arbitration provision. 5 of our 6 Alders did just that (twice), and the court recently ruled that while officers may choose to have their cases heard in arbitration, any arbitration for serious misconduct must be public. This is a victory toward transparency and accountability.

    Read our latest here.

  • Thank you to everyone who participated in our community survey to begin the year! Your feedback is essential in forming our goals and priorities for 2024.

    Take a look at the results by clicking the links below:

    • Survey results and visualizations

    • Survey raw data files