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 ...

Federal Monitor Karl Racine has been overseeing it for the last two years. He says he’s seen significant progress, but more work is needed.

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

Law enforcement officers need to be able to do their jobs and enforce the law without politicians holding them back,” Moreno ...

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

An executive order signed by President Donald J. Trump last week has put a pause on all pending environmental litigation and ...

The looming agreement to reform LMPD was at the center of a community conversation known as The Bishop’s Table on Friday.

A day after Attorney General Pam Bondi was confirmed, Senator Bernie Moreno wrote her a letter asking to reexamine ...

President's memo on civil rights litigation has put consent decrees in question. During the final weeks of the Biden administration, the Department of Justice announced consent decrees for police ...

According to Racine, some departments have met all requirements and had their Consent Decrees lifted in as little as 8 years, while other have taken as along as 22 years. I asked Racine ...

The Minneapolis federal consent decree is being reviewed by Judge Paul A. Magnuson, a senior judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota who was appointed by President Ronald Regan.