It takes six months to fill a job in city government — if you’re lucky. Writers Conor Durkin and Richard Day break down the ...

The consent decree was enacted more than a decade ago by the United States Department of Justice due to unconstitutional ...

The Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office has been under a consent decree for over a decade, with no timetable on when it might end ...

The federal consent decree has governed nearly every aspect of the NOPD since former mayor Mitch Landrieu agreed to it in ...

U.S. District Court Judge Susie Morgan said Thursday she is prepared to lift the consent decree that has governed the New ...

The consent decree, entered in Tulsa federal court, deals with the treatment of people judged mentally incompetent for adjudication.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Tennessee demanded Friday that the Memphis Police Department comply with a Civil Rights-era consent decree limiting their ability to watch ...

A coalition of police reform groups is raising new concerns about a significant increase in the number of times Chicago police officers are using force against members of the public. Chicago Tonight ...

V.I. Police are moving closer to re-entering “sustained compliance” with a federal consent decree, which is intended to prevent officers from using unreasonable physical force and committing civil ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Months after the search began, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg has announced the city’s Independent Monitor. The search for the Independent Monitor began when the U.S.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Tennessee State Senator Brent Taylor (R-Memphis) spoke to Congress Tuesday, the second official day of operations for the Memphis Safe Task Force, a collection of 13 federal agencies ...