A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a consent decree that would have required broad reforms to the Louisville Metro Police Department following Breonna Taylor’s death, ending the U.S. Justice ...

A federal judge has finally dismissed the police reform consent decree between the federal government and Louisville officials, more than half a year after the U.S. Department of Justice, in a ...

In reaching the deal, Florida is harnessing a tactic called “sue and settle,” in which a plaintiff files a lawsuit against a ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Multiple federal consent decrees designed to fix troubled police departments across the U.S. have been ...