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As Cleveland continues its nearly 10-year effort to reform its police force under a consent decree agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration filed a new ...
The Community Police Commission, made up of city residents, was initially formed in 2015 under Cleveland’s consent decree ...
CLEVELAND — Ten years ago, the Cleveland Division of Police was put under a federal consent decree. The decision by the U.S. Department of Justice came after multiple high-profile officer ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) -It was 2015 when the U.S. Department of Justice ruled that the Cleveland Police Department (CPD) was violating parts of the U.S. Constitution and federal law and it placed ...
CLEVELAND (WJW) – The FOX 8 I-Team has found a shake-up in the lawyers for the U.S. attorney handling the Cleveland police consent decree, federal oversight of reform going on for a decade.
The Cleveland Division of Police has been under a federal consent decree since 2015, but that agreement is now under review and could be terminated. To stream WKYC on your phone, you need the WKYC ...
Today, Senator Bernie Moreno (Ohio-R) sent a letter to the new U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, asking that Cleveland’s Consent Decree overseeing the Cleveland Police Department be dismissed.
The consent decree was the result of a DOJ investigation launched in 2013 following multiple high-profile use-of-force incidents. It has since led to changes in police training, oversight, and ...
Consent decrees have been used in other cities, like Baltimore, Cleveland and New Orleans and have proven effective. In New Orleans, residents' approval rating of the police department grew from ...
Cleveland police searched Black people more than three times as often as White people during stops in 2023 — despite finding contraband at similar ... the race of people stopped by Cleveland officers ...
CLEVELAND (WJW) – The FOX 8 I-Team has found a shake-up in the lawyers for the U.S. attorney handling the Cleveland police consent decree, federal oversight of reform going on for a decade.