Program Evaluation Summary

The Citizen and Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting (CLEAR) project, a state-of-the-art information technology system enabling Chicago police to quickly share crime information, promises substantial crime-fighting benefits, according to a project status report released in February 2005. The Chicago Community Policing Evaluation Consortium, a team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University, prepared the status report on the Chicago Police Department CLEAR project. The project was supported by a federal Anti-Drug Abuse Act grant administered by the Authority. The report examined the CLEAR system's impact on police management, the department, and crime-fighting strategies, as well as on the status of the expanded statewide Illinois Citizen and Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting system, also know as ICLEAR.