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Remel Terry

President, West Side, Chicago Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability

Raised ICE and immigration enforcement at five meetings.

12 of 15transcribed meetings with their voice identified

Presides over the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability

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Next Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability meeting: Thu, Nov 12, 6:30 pm · Clerk’s calendar

Two clips, newest first

  • Remel Terry · Commissioner · Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability · Feb 26, 2026 · 25:27

    “Nearly 1,500 people attended a meeting in person and online. Many speakers expressed their fear and anger and uncertainty about how CPD activity during immigration enforcement actions affects public safety and trust in law enforcement.”

  • Remel Terry · Commissioner · Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability · Jan 8, 2026 · 10:42

    “I now like to provide some more information about tonight’s hearing. Since ICE and Customs Border Protection increased activity in Chicago, there have been questions about whether the Chicago Police Department has engaged with ICE and CBP in ways that violate city law and departmental policy, police department policy.”

Issues Terry raised, by number of meetings

We count who raised an issue, not which side they took.

Talk time, and Terry’s other bodies
Neighborhoods Terry named

One place Terry named in meetings

Lines where Terry named the place, read by two AI readers that both agree it means that place. Each dot plays the newest one; brighter means named more often.

Chicago
  • South Lawndale 1 time

Places are drawn at the centre of their own boundary in the city’s Boundaries - Community Areas file (City of Chicago Data Portal). A dot says the place was named, not where Terry was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Terry’s voice

12, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Terry’s first remark.

  1. Sep 2, 2026Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability3.7 minVideo
  2. Aug 27, 2026Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability32.2 minVideo
  3. Aug 17, 2026Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability4.7 min9:20
  4. Jul 30, 2026Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability14.7 min20:28
  5. May 28, 2026Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability10.7 minVideo
  6. Apr 2, 2026Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability15.2 min0:11
  7. Mar 26, 2026Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability6.0 min27:46
  8. Feb 26, 2026Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability16.2 minVideo
  9. Jan 8, 2026Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability7.9 min10:36
  10. Dec 11, 2025Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability11.9 min0:08
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  1. Nov 13, 2025Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability12.3 minVideo
  2. Oct 30, 2025Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability22.0 minVideo
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 Terry’s voice at 12 meetings. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Terry was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Remel Terry’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 Terry 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 Terry or of Chicago alone.