Oak Park Police Chief Shatonya Johnson shared data for the department’s 2025 field stops with the village board this week, as some trustees asked for a more accessible presentation of the data in the future.
The police department provided a record of every stop that officers made last year, including a spreadsheet that contained demographic data of the people police stopped, whether the stop had been initiated by officers or done in response to a resident’s call for service and a written narrative of each incident. The police department has committed to sharing data on field stops quarterly in a move for community transparency requested by Trustee Cory Wesley, but that didn’t happen over the last year in part because of the murder of Detective Allan Reddins in November 2024, Johnson said.
“As we prepared to honor Detective Reddins throughout the year it created a delay,” she said. “So we compiled the information into a year report.”…