Cynthia Velazquez
Board member, Board, Chicago Police BoardWe identified Velazquez’s voice at five meetings.
Every meeting where we identified Velazquez’s voice
- Jun 18, 2026Chicago Police Board0.7 min6:44
- May 21, 2026Chicago Police Board1.0 min4:19
- Mar 19, 2026Chicago Police Board0.1 min2:01
- Feb 19, 2026Chicago Police Board0.9 min12:26
- Dec 18, 2025Chicago Police Board0.1 min13:00
How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 340 commission lines drawn, 260 right, 4 wrong, 1 unclear, 75 couldn’t be judged
A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Velazquez was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Cynthia Velazquez’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Velazquez said. For commissions, of 340 lines drawn, 260 were right, 4 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 75. We have since removed the voices behind 64 of those lines (3 wrong, 0 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 276 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 228: 226 right, 1 wrong and 1 unclear (90% lower bound 0.97). They couldn’t judge the other 48. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Velazquez or of Chicago alone.