The Justice Department announced Wednesday it was canceling proposed consent decrees reached with Minneapolis and Louisville to implement policing reforms in the wake of the killings of George Floyd ...

Five years ago this week, “the summer of protests” erupted. On May 26, 2020, in Minneapolis, protesters responded to George ...

The Trump administration’s request to scrap the federal consent decree drew ire from activists and Minneapolis officials as ...

The consent decrees had been in place since the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville.

Mayor Craig Greenberg unveiled a plan titled "Louisville's consent decree," which will guide police reforms in the absence of ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has dismissed the consent decree that would have added oversight to Louisville Metro Government and LMPD. Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg has said the city will take ...

A recent announcement by the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division that it will start dismissing lawsuits ...

Some Minneapolis City Council members are pushing for guarantees that the city will follow through with policing changes ...

Community advocates and Metro Council members say the DOJ's move to drop a consent decree is Louisville is disappointing - ...

The city is set to lose a federal monitor that would come with a Justice Department consent decree. But a similar state ...

The consent decree stipulated a series of reforms to Minneapolis Police Department following George Floyd's murder.

A shake-up in the U.S. Department of Justice has cast uncertainty over the future of the sustainment period of the NOPD's ...