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The two finalists - Karl Racine and Renee Hall - are a former attorney general in Washington, D.C. and former police chief in Dallas.

The companies, Hogan Lovells and J.S. Held, will appear at public forums in Cleveland next week. Whichever company is selected will take over the contract held by former monitor Hassan Aden.

Bell Hardaway began working with the Cleveland police monitoring team in 2015 and currently serves as deputy monitor.

The federal judge overseeing police reforms under a federal consent decree with Cleveland, Solomon Oliver, said "while the city has made substantial progress, it has not yet achieved substantial and effective compliance at this time."

The city of Cleveland says it’s made progress in complying with its police-reform agreement with the Justice Department. But in its latest sixth-month…