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Chicago Police Department's CLEAR system
Business Challenge:
With the strong support of Mayor Richard Daley, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) decided in the late 1990s that to maximize law enforcement performance, all policing intelligence should be deposited and accessible in one central location.1 The primary goal of CPD's initiative was to design and build a comprehensive enterprise information system that would profoundly change the way their organization conducted business.
The department envisioned this new technological application impacting three core CPD functions: police management, criminal justice integration and business and community partnership.2 A related strategic goal was to develop this data system in a manner such that it could ultimately be extended beyond Chicago to other cities across Illinois.
Approach Taken:
In 2001 CPD partnered with the Oracle Corporation to create the Citizen and Law Enforcement Analysis system (CLEAR) which was formally introduced after a 10 month development process costing $40 million.3 CLEAR is a relational database program that offers all police officers a comprehensive picture of criminal activities in the Chicago Metro region.
Results Achieved:
While other major cities have experienced an increase in violent and property crimes over the past few years, the Chicago Police Department has been relatively successful in reducing criminal activity. 2007 statistics for Chicago show a 3.8% decrease in overall crime from a year earlier and murder rate that was the lowest in the city since 1965
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