After President Trump ordered a temporary freeze on civil rights litigation, the future of the DOJ's consent decrees with ...

The first report on Minneapolis police’s reforms under a state consent decree show the department has new policies but ...

The Minneapolis Police Department has spent ... MPD and the U.S. Justice Department reached an agreement on a federal consent decree that would mandate additional changes. It still needs the ...

Minneapolis council chambers, the city and the Department of Justice (DOJ) reached a historic settlement — a federal consent ...

Consent decrees in both Minneapolis and Louisville are still awaiting judicial approval, giving the Trump administration an opportunity to intervene and potentially terminate the agreements. In a ...

Brian A. O’Hara was appointed chief of police of Minneapolis in November 2022. Previously, he served as director of public safety and deputy mayor in Newark, N.J., where he began his law enforcement ...

Within days of Trump’s inauguration, the Justice Department’s new chief of staff, Chad Mizelle, sent a pair of memos ordering ...

The city entered into that court-ordered agreement in 2023 and a year later, hired Effective Law Enforcement For All (ELEFA) ...