It was 2015 when the U.S. Department of Justice ruled that the Cleveland Police Department (CPD) was violating parts of the U ...

Karl Racine says Cleveland police have implemented key polices mandated in the decree. Now, his team is assessing them in ...

The agreements between federal agencies and local ones lay out a court-enforced plan for some kind of corrective action — ...

Discussion of three criteria needed to keep the City of Fort Smith in compliance with a federal consent decree is on the ...

Republican senator asks Attorney General Bondi to examine dismissing federal police reform agreements in Cleveland and other ...

Senator Bernie Moreno (Ohio-R) sent a letter to the new U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, asking that Cleveland’s Consent ...

MANY ARE GROWING IMPATIENT. ALEXIS. WELL, VICKI LOUISVILLE IS AT THE MERCY OF A FEDERAL JUDGE WHEN IT COMES TO THIS CONSENT DECREE BETWEEN LMPD AND THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. AND IT’S THAT ...

Minneapolis council chambers, the city and the Department of Justice (DOJ) reached a historic settlement — a federal consent ...

The Castro consent decree, which required police departments to hire based on the city's demographics, expired on Dec. 31.

was violating parts of the U.S. Constitution and federal law and it placed the department under a Consent Decree. Over the past decade, under the supervision of a federal judge and a monitoring ...