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The Chicago Police Department continues to make progress in a court-ordered revamp, but longstanding problems with manpower continue to hold it back.

“Racist and violent policing, unfortunately despite the consent decree, is still the norm being experienced by people on the ground in the city,” Alexandra Block, an attorney with the ACLU of Illinois, said during a hearing Tuesday.

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Words commonly used by the men in the survey to describe Chicago police officers were aggressive, racist, disrespectful, unreliable and unethical.

CHICAGO — Earlier this year, the former federal prosecutor evaluating the Chicago Police Department’s court-ordered efforts to reform itself took the department to task in an unusual letter.

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

At a meeting with the monitor tracking compliance with court-ordered reforms, Supt. David Brown struggled to explain how he would meet a key deadline while deeply cutting staff that was implementing those changes.

The police department already has been criticized for boasting about minor progress rather than staying on track to meet deadlines.

Without community trust, all other changes implemented to better the police department are at risk of crashing down in a chilling domino effect.

CHICAGO — The Chicago Police Department has improved its training processes for officers and “devoted significant attention” to its foot pursuit policy, while also struggling with community engagement and building trust, according to a report on the department’s progress toward making court-ordered reforms.

While the Chicago Police Department is at some level of compliance with roughly three-fourths of a federal consent decree, a new report raises alarms about staffing, a delayed foot pursuit policy and efforts to build community trust.