Cleveland consent decree

The Police Accountability Team's Leigh Anderson and Chief Annie Todd appeared at the City Club of Cleveland's Friday forum as monitor overseeing reform prepares new reports on use of force and crisis intervention.

Monitor Karl Racine first raised the issue of nonpayment or delayed payments in March.

The report analyzed 2022 data and found 66% of stops were of Black people.

The monitor and U.S. Department of Justice are criticizing a recent decision to promote an officer with a 2017 discipline case that included falsifying reports.

According to data released by the city, less than 1% of crisis intervention incidents resulted in a use of force by Cleveland Police.

Racine told council he can't provide an estimate for when the city is released from the consent decree.

Monitor Karl Racine said in a new progress report the city made no progress toward completing the consent decree during the second half of 2023.

The change in discipline policy was one of the concessions Mayor Justin Bibb made to secure 12-hour shifts from Cleveland police unions.

The report from the Community Police Commission found the city has completed about 39% of reforms under the consent decree, down 3 points from the previous report.

Cleveland officials, the police monitoring team and U.S. Department of Justice appeared in federal court Thursday for an update on the consent decree.