Mayor Harrell files for court approval to terminate the Seattle police consent decree and revise crowd management policies.

Mayor Bruce Harrell announced the city of Seattle has filed for federal court approval to terminate the consent decree ...

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CPD reached preliminary compliance in 34% of consent decree paragraphs, and the other 7% of the consent decree paragraphs had not reached any level of compliance.

During the consent decree’s infancy, CPD was graded on just 215 “monitorable” paragraphs. The forthcoming report, to be released in the first half of 2025, will assess more than 600 paragraphs.

CPD leaders and the monitoring team agreed just two months after Reed’s death to expand the consent decree to include traffic stops, but reform advocates and politicians pushed back.

"I am writing to you today because of my grave concern over your proposed budget cuts to the CPD -- the deepest of which target units within CPD responsible for implementing the consent decree's ...

The latest assessment by the independent monitor has found the Chicago Police Department continues to make incremental progress in its consent decree obligations, but those efforts are under threat ...

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