Attorney General Jeff Sessions orders a review of police reform consent decrees.

Civil rights leaders met with Attorney General Jeff Sessions to discuss their concerns about the DOJ's direction.

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Ferguson officials have missed crucial deadlines that were set by the Department of Justice in efforts to reform policing procedures.

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Civil rights activists fear the outcome of a DOJ probe into Freddie Gray’s case under the Trump administration.

Baltimore's mayor and the attorney general announce that they've reached an accord on police reforms. The agreement awaits court approval.

A federal probe cleared South Boston, Virginia, officers who discharged their Tasers 20 times while Linwood Lambert was shackled.

Kim Foxx steps into her job as Cook County's top prosecutor with the Chicago police department under federal probe. She promises to make reforms that will end the sense of hopelessness.

Baltimore's mayor is asking the state for $30 million to pay for police reforms. Some of the spending would go toward an early warning system to identify patterns of police misconduct.

The Department of Justice announced that it will phase out its use of private prisons. There's no need for them with the declining population of federal prisoners.

A lawsuit accuses 13 St. Louis suburbs of extorting poor Black residents. Attorneys say they're operating debtor's prisons.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday closed a probe prompted by the April 2015 death of Freddie Gray. It concluded Baltimore police officers regularly violate the constitutional rights of Black residents through the use of excessive force, unlawful searches and arrests, and racial discrimination.

A DOJ study reveals that responding to domestic disputes accounts for most fatalities of police. This paints a different picture from the view that there's a war on cops.