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Baltimore City’s Consent Decree: A Lifeline in Jeopardy as Justice Department Retreats from Reform
Baltimore City stands at a crossroads—between fragile progress and a perilous retreat. As the U.S. Department of Justice continues scaling back its civil rights oversight, the city’s landmark police reform agreement—the consent decree born after the death of Freddie Gray—is under growing threat.
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Baltimore Police representatives say officers are warming to consent decree
Representatives of the Baltimore Police Department on Monday told members of a state panel charged with review and oversight of relations between police and the communities they serve that officer tensions over a consent decree implemented in 2017 and other departmental changes have begun to dissipate.
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