Chicago Police Department (CPD) Superintendent Eddie T. Johnson joined law enforcement, prosecutorial and criminal justice partners to launch the citywide GunStat Initiative, an unprecedented collaborative effort designed to track gun offenders from their arrest, prosecution, sentencing and ultimate release, in order to identify trends, strengths and address any weaknesses within the criminal justice system. In partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, the Office of Cook County Sheriff and other major partners, the new initiative will utilize all stakeholders’ internal data and statistics of criminal activity, prosecutorial decisions, and disposition outcomes to better focus on violent crime patterns across Chicago. As part of the initiative, each agency will assign representatives with the ability to make coordinated resource, crime intervention, and policy decisions at a citywide level. With partners at all levels of government, this working group will examine statistics and case outcomes within the criminal justice system for select gun crime offenses in an effort to identify areas of improvement in the investigation, processing, court prosecution, and reentry of gun offenders.