Overview
- City data show 2,930 reported use-of-force incidents through October 2025 versus 3,089 in all of 2024, marking a fourth consecutive annual increase.
- The monitoring team reported CPD at 94% preliminary compliance, 66% secondary compliance, and 23% full compliance with the 2019 consent decree.
- Superintendent Larry Snelling acknowledged an increase in officers pointing firearms and said he is working with district commanders to address it.
- Monitors flagged frequent late activation of body-worn cameras, a backlog in Tactical Review and Evaluation Division assessments, and an understaffed Crisis Intervention Unit.
- Minutes after the hearing began, an officer shot and wounded a man in Washington Park, a case now under investigation by CPD and the Civilian Office of Police Accountability.