>> Chicago police officers shot 12 people and killed 6 during the first 5 months of this year.

That's the same number of people officer shot and killed in all of 2024, according to an analysis of city data by W T Tw News reporter Heather Sharon joins us now with more.

Heather Breakdown.

This increase in police shootings for us.

So of the 12 people shot and 6 people killed between January first and may 31st.

>> The same amount as in all of 2024.

6 people were shot by police officers in the month of May alone.

2 were killed all but 2 of the shootings since the first of the year took place in the South and the West side for involved people that police said were with knives.

3 the shootings followed foot chases which are among the most dangerous interactions police officers and members of the public have.

And on June Officer Crystal Rivera became the 7th person to be shot and killed by Chicago police officer officials say her partner unintentionally shot her after a foot chase.

Heather, what do we know about whether these other shootings were justified?

All of the shootings remain under investigation by the civilian Office of Police Accountability.

And it is likely that it will take months if not most of the next year for Copa to figure out whether the shootings complied with department.

He'll use of force policy.

Do police officials are Mayor Brandon Johnson?

Do any of them have an explanation for this increase in the number of shootings?

So the superintendent, Larry Snelling representatives of the police department declined to answer questions that I sent to them.

Mayor Brandon Johnson said that there's no evidence that the shootings are evidence that the ongoing reform effort is ineffective or impractical, OK?

so more than 6 years ago, though, city and police leaders, they agreed to this extensive oversight from a federal judge in an effort to prevents deadly encounters between police and members of the public.

You spoke with police reform advocates.

Are they concerned by this Are at the heart of the consent decree, which, of course, is supposed to change the way officers are trained, supervised and disappointing was the goal of making these interactions between police officers and residents of Chicagoans less deadly Alexander block of the ACLU, which was one of the groups that sued the city to force the city to enter into consent decree since the CPD owes the city an explanation for the shootings and she says they will continue and demanding those Astor those answers as part of the consent decree ongoing process had own study on the case for Thanks,