Racine, who has overseen the police consent decree compliance process for the last two years, stepped down Wednesday.

Mayor Jacob Frey says his proposed budget will keep the city on “solid footing.” The budget proposal includes a 7.8 percent ...

In May, Dhillon announced she was moving to dismiss efforts to impose consent decrees on the Louisville, Kentucky, and Minneapolis police departments. She complained that consent decrees turn local ...

The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division had brought lawsuits accusing Louisiana of confining prisoners longer than they should and ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump about the sentencing of Brett Hankison, the former police officer involved in the raid that killed Breonna Taylor.

Minneapolis officials’ pledge to keep terms of federal consent decree comes with accountability worry The city is set to lose a federal monitor that would come with a Justice Department consent ...

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