Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey issued an executive order on Tuesday instructing the city to fully implement all reforms outlined in a federal consent decree weeks after its dismissal.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey issued an executive order on Tuesday instructing the city to fully implement all reforms outlined in a consent decree weeks after its dismissal. Bison’s last moments ...

The Baltimore Police Department itself has called the consent decree “a mandate for positive transformation to benefit the community and the Department.” But now, as the Justice Department backs away ...

When the U.S. Attorney’s Office moved to dismiss a federal consent decree to reform the Minneapolis Police Department, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey vowed, “We’re doing it anyway.” On ...

In Aug. 2016, two years after the police shooting death of Michael Brown, Jr., U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry approved a 131-page consent agreement between the City of Ferguson and the U. S ...

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Police Chief Brian O’Hara address the dismissal of the federal consent decree on May 21. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune) Gift Share Listen ...

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Earlier this month, a similar consent decree was announced in Minneapolis after years of investigation into its police force. The DOJ inquiry, launched in the wake of George Floyd’s killing, uncovered ...

Members of the Minneapolis City Council want to make the city’s verbal promise to follow through with the dismissed federal consent decree a legal promise, too. Supporters of the plan announced ...

Both Minneapolis and Louisville officials said they would continue reform efforts despite the federal pullback. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey pledged to follow the 169-page federal consent decree, ...

While officials touted similarities between a new police reform plan and the defunct DOJ consent decree, a Courier Journal analysis found differences.