Federal consent decreepolice reformpolice accountabilityFederal consent decrees have been used to reform police organizations in the United States for more than two decades. Agencies having completed consent decrees and the data accumulated in the process, however, have rarely been examined. Meanwhile, ...
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St. Louis County police spokesman Brian Schellman said if the county were ever asked to take over policing in Ferguson, "we would consider the implications of the consent decree before entering into such an agreement." Knowles doesn't believe neighboring municipal departments would agree to cover ...
In 1985, the FTC brought an enforcement action against the American Society of Sanitary Engineering (henceforth “ASSE”) pursuant to Section 5 of the FTC Act.Footnote97The matter settled by consent decree. The ASSE was a private standard setting organization that promulgated plumbing product standar...
27. The Nigeria Police Council shall comprise the following members - (a) the President who shall be the Chairman; (b) the Governor of each State of the Federation; (c) the Chairman of the Police Service Commission; and (d) the Inspector-General of Police 28. The functions of the...
Cleveland police agreed last year to a Department of Justice consent decree that alleged officers in the city were "poorly trained and reckless," and that actions taken by the city's police formed a "pattern or practice of constitutional violations." On the day Rice was killed, a resident di...
The case, which the U.S. Department of Justice later joined, eventually led to a 2015 consent decree ordering significant changes at the city jails and the appointment of a federal monitor to oversee their implementation. Last November, the advocates filed a motion s...
Originality/value: Police auditing in the context of the federal consent decree is shown to be a viable approach for institutionalizing police reforms, but further research is necessary on specific performance measurements of police operations and relationship between these measures and police effectiveness...
City Council members accept federal recommendations for Police Department regarding female applicantsCorpus Christi City Council members voted unanimously Tuesday to accept the terms of a federal consent decree in connection with Police Department hiring practices regarding female applicants.Michelle Villarreal...
These data were combined with information on the date of consent decree implementation to create a department-by-year panel dataset. The findings suggested that while there is little evidence that consent decrees targeting use of force decrease police killings, there was some evidence that other ...