>> It's significant increase in the number of times Chicago police use force against residents since 2022. mayor, it's a full-scale review.

That's according to the office of Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul.

Our Heather Sharon joins us now with more now.

Heather, this isn't the first time attorney general sounded the alarm about the number of times Chicago police officers are using force against members of the public.

Why are they can what's the concern here?

>> Well, according to CPD is own data.

Officers used force against members of the public more than 3,000 times in 2025.

Now that is nearly 36% increase since 2023.

The attorney general's office is especially concerned about increases in the uses of force against youth and the increase in the amount at the highest of force against members of the public.

Now, back in November, the attorney general's office first sounded the alarm about this increase, saying that it threatened the entire consent decree reform push, which of course, started more than 7 years ago.

>> And Heather, with his attorney general should happen now.

>> Well, they say a full-scale review would look at specific representative samples where officers used force against members of the public to determine was that force reasonable wasn't necessary.

Did officers follow CPD policy and tried to de-escalate the situation before of use of force was necessary.

They say that will allow them to figure out what if anything needs to be changed policy or maybe that officers need to be retrained And how did the Chicago Police Department Superintendent Larry Snowy respond to the attorney general's demands?

He pushed back the city's top cop said that he was concerned such a review would not take into the account, the totality of the circumstances.

And he said officers are human.

They make mistakes and that he says the department is prepared to hold them accountable for mistakes.

But he does not want these instance to be taken out context.

Now superintendent Snelling can't stop this review under the terms of the federal court order.

But it's clear that there is distinct disagreement on why officers and if officers are using force more often the top cop says it's because officers are simply doing a better job reporting it to authorities.

And now the latest report on Cp's efforts to comply with the consent decree is out.

What did that?

What it what did they find?

Well, the CPD is now in full compliance with 25% of the consent decree.

Now, this agreement overall is designed to stop officers for routinely violating the civil rights of black and Latino Chicagoans.

It first went into effect in March 2019.

That tells you there's still a way to go before we reach that 100% Mark.

Well, thank you, Heather, for breaking that down for us.

Thanks, John.

A and you can read Heather's full story on our website.

It's all at W T Tw Dot com slash news.