We reject voices that suggest that returning to the dark days of police Cmdr. Jon Burge and rampant, illegal police abuse ...

The latest assessment by the independent monitor has found the Chicago Police Department continues to make incremental ...

In an opinion last week, the Maryland Appellate Court rejected arguments that a decades-old consent decree over state funding ...

Republican lawmakers asked for another extension on time to review rules that would codify treatment inside Wisconsin youth ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has called on a federal judge to end the 12-year-old consent decree governing the New ...

CPD’s overall compliance with the consent decree — a set of reforms spurred by the 2014 killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a former CPD officer — again ticked up in the first six months of 2024 ...

That part is the federal consent decree — which the city is still negotiating with the Department of Justice — given President-Elect Donald Trump's track record surrounding this kind of action.

A consent decree is one of the federal government’s most aggressive tools for reining in police departments found to be ...

The proposed budget cuts would be a step backward for the (Chicago police) reform process at a pivotal point, just when ...

Delta request not ‘true consent decree,’ court won’t enter it $15.9 million settlement not contingent on decree approval ...