Since the chaos in 2020, the Chicago Police Department has spent hundreds of hours training its officers for large-scale protests.
Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling, with U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, discuss security planning and preparations for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, during a news conference at the Secret Service’s Chicago field office on June 4, 2024. The Chicago Police Department, from the top down, has been intensely training and preparing for the Democratic National Convention since Chicago was announced as the host city last year.
From the United Center on the West Side to McCormick Place along the lake, from Roseland to Rogers Park, from Englewood to Edgewater and every community in between, we will do everything to keep our city safe. While we are training for mass arrest situations, making arrests is not the focus of our training, and we hope to avoid having to make arrests.Our First Amendment rights policy was completely revised in 2022 and details how we respond to demonstrations and the efforts we are taking to give those in violation of the law multiple opportunities to disperse without arrest.
It is true that police departments across the country, including CPD, were caught off guard during the civil unrest of 2020. We were not as prepared or trained as we should have been for the explosion of rage and riots that swept through the streets of America. Peaceful demonstrations were hijacked by provocateurs and criminals who were determined to turn a call for justice for George Floyd into an excuse to loot and burn.No one should compare the CPD of old with today’s CPD.
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