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 ...

Chicago police agreed to judicial oversight in 2019. Since then, a series of mayors and police chiefs let efforts languish ...

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

Good morning, Chicago. The latest assessment by the independent monitor has found the Chicago Police Department continues to make incremental progress in its consent decree obligations, but those ...

Officials who were involved in negotiating and implementing the reforms laid out in the police department's 2019 consent ...

The independent monitor assessing the city’s compliance with a federal consent decree issued a dire warning Tuesday as ...

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

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.

The stark warning from independent monitor Maggie Hickey was included in a new progress report showing that CPD has reached ...