Follow-up Inquiry on the Chicago Police Department’s Preparedness for Mass Gatherings

By City of Chicago, Office of the Inspector General

In its February 2021 report, OIG found that despite advance information signaling the planning of large-scale public protest gatherings following the murder of George Floyd, the Chicago Police Department (CPD or the Department) was under-equipped and unprepared to respond to the scale of the protests and unrest in the downtown area and across Chicago’s neighborhoods from May 29 through June 7, 2020 (2020 protests and unrest).

OIG identified failures within intelligence assessment, major event planning, field communication and operation, administrative systems, and, most significantly, from CPD’s senior leadership.

Chicago: Office of the Inspector General, 2024. 52p.