Abstract
This paper aims to examine use of force allegation patterns within the Chicago Police Department following the 2015 Department of Justice investigation. The DOJ investigation serves as a point of reference to allow the researcher to determine if the promise of increased scrutiny brought on by the investigation may have preemptively changed the behavior of officers, which could result in a change in allegation patterns. Using publicly available data from the Invisible Institute’s Citizens’ Police Data Project, a Poisson regression is employed to determine if the number of allegations changed significantly following the onset of the DOJ investigation. Additionally, a historical perspective allows the various factors that influence police use of force and reform to be broken down and applied to possible future research and policies.
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