Robert Boik is the Senior Vice President of Public Safety. He’s served as a senior official in a variety of public sector roles in his career, most recently with the Chicago Police Department, the 2nd largest police department in the nation. Within CPD, Robert served as the executive director for constitutional policing and reform. In this role, Robert managed more than 500 staff and the implementation of department reforms to achieve compliance with the most extensive consent decree in the nation. In doing so, Robert led the development of the “Roadmap for Operational Compliance,” which is a strategic plan and performance management roadmap designed to achieve cultural change throughout the Chicago Police Department. In addition, Robert achieved a 790% increase in compliance with the department’s consent decree in a two-year period, taking the department from 48 paragraphs with some level of compliance when he took over the position to 427 when he left the department.
At CPD Robert also served as chief of staff for three different police superintendents. In this capacity, he negotiated the department’s consent decree with the Illinois Attorney General’s Office. He also built the operational infrastructure that was essential for managing the department’s reform efforts including creating teams devoted to strategy, project management, data analytics, and auditing. Robert also led the development of several key department policies on topics such as use of force, 4th amendment stops and foot pursuits.
Prior to his roles at CPD, Robert’s career focused on education policy matters including serving as the chief of staff for operations for Chicago Public Schools, chief of staff to the state receiver overseeing Detroit Public Schools and as chief of staff to the State Superintendent of Education in Washington, DC.
Robert holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from George Mason University where he was a Bryce Harlow Foundation Fellow and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Western Michigan University. He and his wife Nicole live in the City of Chicago and are the proud parents of two children.
