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Patrol

Moody's Cuts Ferguson Credit Rating to 'Junk' Status

Moody's Investors Service cut the credit rating of Ferguson, Mo., to "junk" status on Thursday, citing the city's sharply deteriorating finances.

September 18, 2015

Patrol

2 Seattle Officers in Trouble Over Comments About De-Escalation Training

Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole has asked the department’s internal-investigations unit to conduct a preliminary review of comments made by two officers in a New York Times video and story on de-escalation training.

June 30, 2015

Patrol

Groups Seek Changes to Cleveland Consent Decree

The NAACP and other civil rights groups want a federal judge to modify a consent decree aimed at reforming the troubled Cleveland police department by requiring outside agencies to investigate deadly police-use-of-force cases and to make the job of police inspector general more independent, according to brief filed Monday.

June 29, 2015

Technology

Federal Monitor Wants Seattle Officers to Wear Body Cameras

“The time for permanent use of on-officer cameras by all SPD officers is now,” the monitor, Merrick Bobb, writes in the fifth semiannual report since the city entered into a 2012 consent decree with the U.S. Justice Department to curtail excessive force and biased policing.

June 16, 2015

Training

Cleveland Chief: Officers Should See Themselves as 'Guardians,' Not 'Warriors'

Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams said Wednesday that among the challenges he faces in reforming his department in concert with a federal consent decree is training his officers to view themselves as guardians of the community, rather than warriors.

June 11, 2015

Patrol

Cleveland Police Union Says Federal Reforms Endanger Officers

The head of the Cleveland police department's patrol union said aspects of the agreement that mandates sweeping reforms to the city's police department could put officers in danger.

May 29, 2015

Patrol

Cleveland to Overhaul Police Use-of-Force Policy Under Federal Consent Decree

Officers will be held to higher standards on unholstering and firing their weapons and no longer will be allowed to use their guns to strike suspects as they would with a baton.

May 26, 2015

Patrol

Cleveland PD Consent Decree Monitor Sought

The U.S. Justice Department and city of Cleveland have taken the first steps toward finding an independent monitor to ensure that the city complies with the terms of an anticipated consent decree addressing the use of excessive force by Cleveland police.

March 31, 2015

Patrol

Ferguson Not Alone in Attracting Justice Department Ire

The report includes information on what is happening in Cleveland; East Haven, Conn.; Missoula County, Mont.; New Orleans; Albuquerque; and Newark.

March 4, 2015

Patrol

Portland Settles with DOJ Over Police Use of Force

A key part of the judge's approval: The city must give him annual updates of its progress in carrying out the reforms, which could take as long as five years. The city and police union had objected to the annual check-ins, but a community group said they were necessary to hold the city and police accountable.

September 3, 2014

Patrol

Seattle Officers Suing City Say New Policies Play Politics with Their Lives

In an open revolt, more than 100 Seattle police officers suing to block new use-of-force polices assert that high-level city, police and union officials privately agree with their contention that the court-ordered changes put them and the public in danger.

September 2, 2014

Patrol

Court Removes Federal Oversight of Detroit PD

The Detroit Police Department will no longer answer to a U.S. Department of Justice overseer. One has been in place since 2003 after an investigation revealed numerous complaints of improper use of force by officers and improper treatment of witnesses.

August 25, 2014