Sep 2024
Community Safety Leadership Academies: Project Overview
Learn more about our Community Safety Leadership Academies.
Policing Leadership Academy Recruitment Flyer
The University of Chicago Policing Leadership Academy (PLA) provides comprehensive leadership and management training to help police agencies prevent violent crime and strengthen relationships with the communities they serve.
Policing Leadership Academy (PLA) Overview
Read an overview of the Policing Leadership Academy (PLA), a first of-its-kind program launched in May 2023 to train America’s policing leaders working in some of our most violent neighborhoods.
Policing Leadership Academy Advisory and Research Committees
View the members of the PLA’s advisory and research committees.
More and better video evidence for police investigations of shootings: Evaluation of Chicago’s Area Technology Centers
This evaluation explores the early effects of the Chicago Police Department’s Area Technology Centers (ATCs), first launched in 2019 to provide specialized investigative support in homicide and nonfatal shooting investigations.
Latest Updates
UChicago Crime Lab’s Mayoral Public Safety Pledge
Chicago has a high-stakes mayoral election coming up in 2027. Given our dire budget situation, what should – or even can – whoever is in charge next do to address the city’s top priority: gun violence?
Senate Passes Promoting Police Leadership Act Inspired by University of Chicago’s PLA
The U.S. Senate passes the bipartisan Promoting Police Leadership Act, landmark legislation that draws heavily from the University of Chicago Crime Lab’s Policing Leadership Academy (PLA).
UChicago Crime Lab’s Policing Leadership Academy Informs First-Ever Bipartisan Federal Legislation to Expand Commander-Level Law Enforcement Training
Bipartisan Promoting Police Leadership Act, introduced by Senators Cornyn and Whitehouse, draws on UChicago model to set national standards