Institutional isomorphism and the federal consent decree: the case of the Los Angeles police departmentThe of this study was to determine the extent to which constructs of institutional isomorphism apply to LAPD's performance measurements of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)'s federal consent ...
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 ...
The FTC generally enforces Section 5 of the FTC Act through administrative proceedings.Footnote9Most proceedings are resolved through consent decrees negotiated with the parties resulting in agreed-upon cease and desist orders.Footnote10In the cases where the party does not agree to a consent decree...
"We want him to stop the governor from cutting off the federal benefits of three hundred dollars a week getting to people," said Summerfield. But during a hearing Friday, after listening to both sides, the case's judge said he needed more time to decide, leaving Maryland's unemploy...
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 magistrate quoted a precedent case as saying, "Courts must abide by the express terms of a consent decree and may not impose supplementary obligations on the parties even to fulfill the purposes of the decree more effectively.'' "A deal is a deal,'' Astorino said. ...
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...
The article reports that Cleveland Police Department (CPD), Ohio and U.S. Department of Justice has joined together under the terms of the "consent decree", in which the CPD will operate under the U.S. Department of Justice.EBSCO_AspNew American...
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 ...
In Pittsburghthe first city to enter into a consent decree with the Justice Department most provisions of the decree were lifted after the Bureau of Police was judged to be in substantial compliance. Pittsburgh, therefore, is the first place we can look to see how the police can satisfy the...