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CLEVELAND (WJW) – The FOX 8 I-Team has found a shake-up in the lawyers for the U.S. attorney handling the Cleveland police consent decree, federal oversight of reform going on for a decade.
As Cleveland continues its nearly 10-year effort to reform its police force under a consent decree agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration filed a new ...
Cleveland police monitor provided an update on the department's progress toward compliance with its federal consent decree, an edict that could soon be rescinded.
Let me broaden the frame for just a moment. The police department here in Cleveland has been in existence for, I’ll call it 135 years, maybe more.
It's been ten years since the Cleveland Division of Police was placed under a federal consent decree. South Korea’s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol leaves prison and bows to supporters ...
Karl Racine says Cleveland police have implemented key polices mandated in the decree. Now, his team is assessing them in depth, with the edict's future in question. SNL issues rare apology to ...
The consent decree was the result of a DOJ investigation launched in 2013 following multiple high-profile use-of-force incidents. It has since led to changes in police training, oversight, and ...
Cleveland officials, the police monitoring team and U.S. Department of Justice appeared in federal court Thursday for an update on the consent decree.
A consent decree’s oversight ends when a federal judge says it does, and it can take longer than the seven years Cleveland’s police force has been under a judge’s jurisdiction. In 2013, a federal ...
The administration of Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb announced Wednesday the creation of a Police Accountability Team (PAT) to oversee the implementation of the Consent Decree, the 2015 negotiated ...
ALFRED PORTER JR: The consent decree has allowed people to be able to at least hold the police accountable. If you get rid of the consent decree, then you have the wolves guarding the henhouse. KASTE: ...