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Point of Law

Judge Announces End of Most Oversight of Seattle Police from Consent Decree

Mayor Bruce Harrell said there are three areas that SPD must continue to improve on and address: crowd control, the police accountability system in the city and the results of collective bargaining with the Seattle Police Officers Guild.

September 7, 2023

Command

Researchers Dispute DOJ Findings of Racial Bias by Minneapolis PD

“We read the report with keen interest, knowing how challenging it is to demonstrate discrimination, especially with non-experimental data. The report contains glaring oversights that overturn its conclusions,” the two professors wrote.

July 12, 2023

Point of Law

Minneapolis PD Faces Federal Consent Decree as DOJ Investigation Finds Civil Rights Violations

“The patterns and practices of conduct the Justice Department observed...erode the community’s trust in law enforcement. And they made what happened to George Floyd possible," Garland said.

June 16, 2023

Command

Chicago PD Criticized Over Officer Suicides in Consent Decree Report

The criticism is part of the latest report on police reform efforts through the consent decree, and comes on the heels of another officer taking her own life this week.

December 19, 2022

Command

Cleveland Police Revising Mass Demonstration Response Policies

The agency must also establish policies on how to handle “civil disobedience” and “civil disturbances,” on dispersal orders, and on training of officers on how to use less-lethal munitions.

December 14, 2022

Point of Law

MA Agency Released from 1972 Consent Decree

According to Springfield Police, the Massachusetts’s Attorney General’s Office informed Springfield Police Superintendent Cheryl Clapprood Monday that a judge removed the Springfield Police Department from the 1972 Castro v. Beecher Federal Consent Decree.

July 26, 2022

Command

New Orleans Officers Leaving in Droves, Slam Agency in Exit Interviews

The departing thoughts of veteran officers and newbies alike lend biting and often emotional detail to a recent NOPD-commissioned survey that reflected similar discontent, with pay a distant second in the reasons officers gave for leaving in droves.

July 25, 2022

Command

MA Officials ask Federal Court to End Consent Decrees Over Police Hiring

"It is time for the consent decrees to end, at the proposed termination dates, so that all municipalities in Massachusetts may resume hiring entry-level police officers and firefighters in accordance with state law," according to the state's April filing.

June 28, 2022

Point of Law

Oakland Police Consent Decree Oversight Could End Next Year

For nearly two decades a court-appointed monitor has overseen whether the OPD is meeting more than 50 reform mandated actions. The monitors reports are then reviewed by a judge.

May 13, 2022

Point of Law

Chicago Police Consent Decree Monitor Discusses Progress

The monitor said work had to be done for the department even to achieve the preliminary compliance CPD has reached in just over 50% of the provisions her team has so far reviewed.

November 30, 2021

Patrol

CO Agency Agrees to Change Hiring, Use of Force, Training Under State Consent Decree

The decree says that Aurora will have to develop new policies and training for officers surrounding stopping people, tracking and documenting use-of-force incidents and creating a culture that prioritizes de-escalation, making changes to the city’s Force Review Board, making policy changes surrounding different types of stops and crisis intervention.

November 17, 2021

Command

Editorial: Who Monitors the Consent Decree Monitors

Being appointed to oversee a federal consent decree against a law enforcement agency should not lead to lifetime employment.

October 13, 2021