Minneapolis, DOJ and Louisville

Just two weeks after sweeping police reforms were agreed upon by the city of Minneapolis and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), it appears that agreement, called a consent decree, could get tossed ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minneapolis City Council on Monday approved an agreement with the federal government to overhaul the city’s police training and use-of-force policies in the wake of the murder ...
President Trump’s new civil rights division head issued a memo that puts the implementation of the Minneapolis consent decree in question.
During Trump’s first administration, he was critical of police reform agreements as he viewed them as anti-police.
This agreement is an important step toward ensuring that meaningful, durable reform is achieved in Minneapolis.” The Department of Justice (DOJ) began investigating the Minneapolis Police ...
The Minneapolis City Council on Monday approved ... “Having a federal consent decree signed and in place is valuable to police reform efforts, but we need to be sober about the fact that it ...