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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Minneapolis and the Justice Department are still negotiating a federal consent decree to legally reform the Minneapolis ...