Project I-CLEAR Evaluation
While advances in information technology (IT) have revolutionized how the world works and
communicates, IT is still in the take-off stage in the criminal justice world. Programs like the highly
publicized CompStat system in New York are starting to show law enforcement officials the effectiveness of
data-driven policing, but adoption of innovative technology in the criminal justice arena continues to creep
along.
Under the direction of Jill DuBois IPR is conducting an evaluation of the Chicago Police Department’s
ongoing IT developments, and of I-CLEAR (Illinois Citizen Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting), an
innovative state-wide criminal justice data integration project. Launched jointly by the Illinois State Police
and the Chicago Police Department (CPD). I-CLEAR will result in the availability of a uniform incident-
reporting system and data sharing among all law enforcement agencies throughout Illinois. The I-CLEAR
evaluation is supported by a grant from the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority.
I-CLEAR is the evolution of an ambitious data-sharing project begun by the CPD in partnership with
Oracle Corporation. More than five years ago, the CPD created its “data warehouse,” a queriable repository
of over five million arrest records drawing from multiple data sources that is updated daily. The Chicago
Police Department first offered data warehouse access to jurisdictions in Chicago’s collar counties and
eventually throughout the state. A study of this regional effort was conducted by IPR researchers Susan
Hartnett and Wesley G. Skogan, and a reprint of an article reporting the findings can be found on this web
site.
The I-CLEAR evaluation has seven goals: to identify and monitor key policy, managerial, technical, and
funding issues; to monitor how effective the project’s many collaborators are in working together; to pinpoint
needs involving training, technical capacity, data collection and security, and access; to track the levels of
agency involvement in the participatory program; to identify innovative uses of I-CLEAR; to describe its
impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of the state’s criminal justice process; and to describe the
implementation process and functioning of this cutting-edge project to the national criminal justice
community. The project started in May 2005, and includes stakeholder and feedback interviews, a statewide
survey of more than 360 agencies, site observations, observations of all major planning and coordinating
meetings, and statistical modeling.
While advances in information technology (IT) have revolutionized how the world works and
communicates, IT is still in the take-off stage in the criminal justice world. Programs like the highly
publicized CompStat system in New York are starting to show law enforcement officials the effectiveness of
data-driven policing, but adoption of innovative technology in the criminal justice arena continues to creep
along.
Under the direction of Jill DuBois IPR is conducting an evaluation of the Chicago Police Department’s
ongoing IT developments, and of I-CLEAR (Illinois Citizen Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting), an
innovative state-wide criminal justice data integration project. Launched jointly by the Illinois State Police
and the Chicago Police Department (CPD). I-CLEAR will result in the availability of a uniform incident-
reporting system and data sharing among all law enforcement agencies throughout Illinois. The I-CLEAR
evaluation is supported by a grant from the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority.
I-CLEAR is the evolution of an ambitious data-sharing project begun by the CPD in partnership with
Oracle Corporation. More than five years ago, the CPD created its “data warehouse,” a queriable repository
of over five million arrest records drawing from multiple data sources that is updated daily. The Chicago
Police Department first offered data warehouse access to jurisdictions in Chicago’s collar counties and
eventually throughout the state. A study of this regional effort was conducted by IPR researchers Susan
Hartnett and Wesley G. Skogan, and a reprint of an article reporting the findings can be found on this web
site.
The I-CLEAR evaluation has seven goals: to identify and monitor key policy, managerial, technical, and
funding issues; to monitor how effective the project’s many collaborators are in working together; to pinpoint
needs involving training, technical capacity, data collection and security, and access; to track the levels of
agency involvement in the participatory program; to identify innovative uses of I-CLEAR; to describe its
impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of the state’s criminal justice process; and to describe the
implementation process and functioning of this cutting-edge project to the national criminal justice
community. The project started in May 2005, and includes stakeholder and feedback interviews, a statewide
survey of more than 360 agencies, site observations, observations of all major planning and coordinating
meetings, and statistical modeling.
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