The cool evening air of Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood shattered just before 8:00 PM on Wednesday night. In the backyard area of the Park Place Apartments on East Boulevard, what started as a fast-escalating verbal argument rapidly devolved into a chaotic scene of crossfire. When the dust settled, 26-year-old Akili Hammond […]
Consent Decree
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In Cleveland, the debate over police reform has entered a new and consequential phase. More than a decade after the fatal 2014 shooting of Tamir Rice and the sweeping findings that led the United States Department of Justice to place the Cleveland Division of Police under a federal consent decree, […]
Prepared for: Civic Leaders, Legal Stakeholders, Community Oversight Bodies, and Public Safety Innovators: Prepared by: Georgio — Founder, GoVia Highlight A Hero (GoVia GS3) Cleveland stands at a constitutional crossroads. After more than a decade under a federal police consent decree, the city’s leadership—Mayor Justin Bibb, City Council President Blaine […]
In 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice concluded that the Cleveland Division of Police had engaged in a pattern or practice of excessive force, unconstitutional policing, and systemic accountability failures. The resulting 2015 federal consent decree placed Cleveland under court-supervised reform — mandating new use-of-force standards, bias-free policing policies, crisis […]
CLEVELAND, OH — In a stark echo of policing reforms across the United States, the City of Cleveland has filed a joint motion with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to terminate its decade-long federal consent decree governing the Cleveland Division of Police (CDP). The decree, born of a 2015 DOJ investigation into patterns of […]