City of Chicago Office of Inspector General

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an advisory regarding Chicago Police Department (CPD) members misusing CPD parking placards to secure illegal parking spots for themselves and their family and friends in a fire lane near City Hall, as well as at CPD parking lots to attend nearby sporting...

A 2017 audit by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that the City perpetuates significant inequities between wards and underfunds residential street infrastructure needs by approximately $228.8 million annually, primarily because it does not follow best practices for multi-year capital...

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) has identified an opportunity to immediately improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the Department of Streets and Sanitation’s (DSS) Bureau of Forestry. The issue was identified during an OIG investigation involving the Bureau of Forestry, which is...

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted a review of the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD or the “Department”) risk models known as the Strategic Subject List (SSL) and Crime and Victimization Risk Model (CVRM). CPD received $3.8 million in federal grants to develop these models, which were...

An OIG investigation found that neither CFD nor CPD enroll their employees in the City’s biometric timekeeping system. The biometric component of the respective electronic timekeeping systems helps ensure that an employee is physically present when he or she clocks in for work, thus reducing the...

An OIG inquiry has determined that the City does not comply with the requirements of Executive Order No. 2012-2 (“the Order”), which governs the administration of the Chicago Data Portal. Additionally, in the course of several OIG projects, we have observed multiple issues that impact the Portal’s...

The Public Safety section of the City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducts, on an ongoing basis, reviews of individual closed disciplinary investigations conducted by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) and the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD) Bureau of Internal...

In the course of two separate disciplinary investigations, employees of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) reported to the Office of Inspector General (OIG) either uncertainty about whether they are obligated to report misconduct by members of the Chicago Police Department (CPD), or...

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted an audit of the development and evaluation of the City’s Capital Improvement Program (CIP), a five-year plan for infrastructure spending. Our objective was to determine if the City develops and evaluates its CIP in accordance with leading practices...

The City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) has completed an audit of the Department of Streets and Sanitation’s (DSS) enforcement of recycling requirements for commercial and high-density residential buildings (i.e., those with five or more units). The objective of the audit was to...