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A consent decree could last years or decades, but it is ultimately up to the judge to decide when the terms of the agreement are completed. The history of consent decrees.

“This consent decree has been in place for over seven years, cost millions of dollars, and failed to make our state’s largest city safer or improve officer retention,” Herrell wrote.

Armour & Co., which held that the scope of consent decrees could only be discerned from within the four corners of the actual decree and they are not enforceable by those who are not parties to them.

Consent decrees are one of the few federal tools to encourage systemic reform in police departments, McJunkin said. Since 2009, there have been at least 16 departments that have entered into ...