Crime & Law
After 7 Years, CPD Now in Full Compliance With 25% of Consent Decree: Monitors
(Michael Izquierdo / WTTW News)
The Chicago Police Department by the end of 2025 had fully complied with 25% of the court order that requires CPD to stop routinely violating Black and Latino residents’ constitutional rights, according to the court-appointed monitoring team charged with keeping track of reform efforts.
The monitors praised CPD for making “significant progress” between July 1 and Dec. 31 in an effort to comply with the consent decree, which has been in effect for seven years. The last report from the monitors found CPD had fully complied with 22% of the consent decree.
There are currently 609 paragraphs in the consent decree. The department has reached no level of compliance with 5% of the consent decree, is in preliminary compliance with approximately 4% of the consent decree’s requirements and secondary compliance with another 67% of the requirements, according to the 13th semiannual report from the team led by attorney Maggie Hickey.
Preliminary compliance means officials have finalized written policies addressing failures.
Secondary compliance means a majority of officers have been trained on those new policies.
Full compliance means the department has demonstrated it can follow those rules over a period of time under the judge’s oversight.
The jump of 27 percentage points in the level of secondary compliance with the consent decree is “consistent with the city’s and the CPD’s dedicated efforts to develop, provide, evaluate and improve training,” according to the monitors report.
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