Following a months-long pause in promotions, New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick announced Monday ...

A letter from Sen. Bernie Moreno raises questions about the federal government’s continued involvement in the consent decree.

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.

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.

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

It was 2015 when the U.S. Department of Justice ruled that the Cleveland Police Department (CPD) was violating parts of the U ...

A freeze on certain civil rights litigation under President Donald Trump has empowered state Attorney General Liz Murrill to ...

Jeff Landry wrote on Facebook. “It is time for the NOPD to be relieved from this costly and burdensome consent decree.” Landry and Attorney General Liz Murill have made an official move to end the ...

The order from Trump — an order we all suspected would come down — leaves in question whether the consent decree between the city of Louisville and the Department of Justice sitting on a ...