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For the fourth year in a row, use-of-force incidents involving Chicago Police officers are increasing, with advocates and officials saying the trend is helping to bring the reform process to a key point.

CPD officers reported 2,930 such incidents through October 2025, compared to 3,089 incidents in all of 2024. The total has risen each year since 2021, according to data from the city’s Office of Inspector General.

During a Tuesday status hearing in the ongoing consent decree, police reform advocates noted to U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer that 2025 has also seen an increase in CPD officers pointing their guns at citizens.

Department leaders say the upticks are due to enhanced data-collection practices, more rigorous training and more

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