Kyle Cooper
President, Chicago Police BoardRuns the Chicago Police Board’s meetings; we identified Cooper’s voice at seven of its nine meetings.
Presides over the Chicago Police Board
Talk time, and Cooper’s other bodies
- Chicago Police Board: talk time not compared. Presides over its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
Every meeting where we identified Cooper’s voice
- May 21, 2026Chicago Police Board12.4 min0:10
- Apr 16, 2026Chicago Police Board11.6 min0:10
- Mar 19, 2026Chicago Police Board8.6 min0:10
- Feb 19, 2026Chicago Police Board15.0 min0:10
- Jan 15, 2026Chicago Police Board16.0 min0:10
- Dec 18, 2025Chicago Police Board20.1 min0:11
- Nov 20, 2025Chicago Police Board14.0 min0:10
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
We identified Cooper’s voice at seven meetings. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Cooper was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Kyle Cooper’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 Cooper 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 Cooper or of Chicago alone.