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 ...

CPD’s overall compliance with the consent decree — a set of reforms spurred by the 2014 killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a former CPD officer — again ticked up in the first six months of 2024 ...

In an opinion last week, Maryland’s second-highest court rejected arguments to bring back a decades-old consent decree ...

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

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's proposed cuts to the police department in specific areas may violate a consent decree forged ...

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

Three different sets of lawyers agreed, after 13 hours of mediation, to keep a Jan. 15 final hearing on the calendar for what ...

Even though the Chicago Police Department budget is set to increase in 2025, police reform resources could be cut. The big ...

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

A consent decree project is also on the directors' agenda. The 2016 Sanitary Sewer Assessment Remedial Measures, Sub-Basin ...