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SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Police Department has achieved “full, sustained and lasting compliance” with most of the provisions of a federal settlement agreement that was intended to transform the department, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Judge James Robart announced the ruling on Wednesday, The Seattle Times reported. The ruling brings an end to court oversight of police reforms in

After more than a decade, the majority of a federal consent decree placed on the Seattle Police Department (SPD) has been lifted. SPD has been under the thumb of a consent decree – federal oversight requiring the department to reform policing tactics. In 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice found officers frequently used excessive force, failed to deescalate interactions and failed to properly

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Justice Department announced Sunday that it is investigating a mass shooting at the Dollar General in New Town as a hate crime. Saturday, three victims who were black were murdered. Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters says the alleged shooter left three manifestos where he wrote about his hatred for black people. U.S. Attorney General, Merrick Garland released the

A judge granted a request by Oregon State and Washington State for a temporary restraining order on Monday to prevent departing Pac-12 members from meeting until it can be determined who has the right to make up the disintegrating conference’s board of directors. At a hearing in Whitman County Superior Court in Washington, Judge Gary Libey ruled that a meeting scheduled for later this week