>> A coalition of police reform groups are raising new concerns about a significant increase in the number of times.

Chicago police officers are using force against members of the public.

The uptick comes more than 6 and a half years after Chicago officials agreed to put the police department under extensive oversight from a federal judge or head to.

Sharon joins us now with the latest on the Chicago consent decree.

How to break down these numbers for us.

How often do Chicago police officers use force?

CPD zone data shows that between 2021 2024.

The number of times police officers used any kind of force.

>> Increased 75%.

Now the coalition led by the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois says that's very troubling.

They're especially concerned because the number of times officers have used what they called lethal force are the most serious level of force has more than doubled between 2023 2024.

In all Chicago, police have shot 17 people so far this year, killing 8 more than all of 2024. the consent decree prompted, of course, by federal investigation that found CPD routinely violated the rights of Chicago's Black and Latino people.

>> What has changed since 2019?

Not much according to the coalition, they say before the consent decree, 90% of Chicagoans who were subject to use of force by a Chicago police officer were black or Latino.

>> And it is still over 90%.

6 and a half years How how has or has CPD brass responded to this increased?

Well, Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling says that the increase not actually there.

It is just a matter.

He says of officers fulfilling the terms of the consent decree which requires every use of force to be documented properly with what's called a tactical response report.

Now, the coalition does not buy that argument and that is what they're asking a federal the federal judge overseeing the consent decree case to dig into.

So the coalition that hold the federal judge overseeing the court case that that increase, of course, violates the consent decree and they have started the process of attempting to enforce the agreement.

>> What happens now while they have 45 days to meet with everybody involved with the consent decree that also involves the Illinois Attorney general.

>> To hammer out sort of a way forward now with the coalition wants is pretty stringent.

They want a binding agreement that was clear benchmarks for the use of force by Chicago police officers with the aim of reducing their use of force in 2025. back to levels.

Last seen in 2022.

Okay.

A lot of work cut out for them and of course I had a strong.

We'll see you a bit later on in the program.

Thank you show