Cleveland officials' police-reform progress under the 2015 consent decree has ground to a halt, the monitor overseeing the case said. Joshua Gunter, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Instead of pushing toward court-ordered police reform, Cleveland officials over a six-month span last year chose “delay and legal squabbles” that hindered efforts to better the department, according to the court-appointed monitor.
Karl Racine leads the consent-decree monitoring team that oversees the city’s progress under a 2015 agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to reform policing. In a report, he said the city’s efforts have stalled.
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