>> The number of times Chicago police officers pointed their guns at people increased more than 44% since 2022, that's according to records obtained by W T Tw News.

Our Heather Sharon joins us now with more on that data and the latest on efforts to reform the Chicago Police Department.

Heather, you took a deep dive into what the department calls firearm pointing incidents.

Would you find?

>> So in 2024, Chicago police officers on average point their weapon and an individual 11 times.

Now, that is a significant increase since 2022. and 2023.

Now we don't have data yet for the first 6 months of 2025.

But just between 2023, 2024, saw a 13% increase in these incidents.

None of these incidents have been ruled unreasonable or unjustified by department officials.

Police leaders there in the process of revising how these incidents are review.

What's changing their well, the consent decree calls for a group of specialized officers highly trained and the tactical review and evaluation division to decide whether these point incidents are in line with department policy.

The problem is that division is woefully understaffed and faces a massive backlog to sort of chip away at that with the approval of a federal judge in the attorney general.

Now, Chicago police captains in 13 of the city's 22 police districts evaluate those incidents directly with their officers.

That has proved effective as part of a pilot program that is set to be expanded.

Citywide officials say early next So during a hearing on the consent decree, of course, that is the federal order requiring CPD to routinely or to stop routinely violating residents.

Constitutional rights.

>> Both the attorney general and a coalition of police reform groups.

They said that there are concerns about this change.

What are they worried about quality control if >> police captains across the city each get to make these decisions.

That raises the possibility that the standards will be different across the city.

It also means that potentially there could be officers who are being given bad feedback or poorly trained and they will subject Chicagoans to violence when they encounter them.

That's a big problem for a department that he's only complied with 16% of the consent decree.

More than 6 and a half years after it started Long Road remains ahead for Chicago Police Department had a shrimp.

Thank you.

Thanks.