Police leaders, Mayor Justin Bibb and other city staff faced dozens of people in Cleveland’s Central neighborhood on Thursday to hear what they thought about ending almost 11 years of federal court oversight of the police.
The consent decree, the 2015 agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to reform city police, wasn’t meant to be permanent, Bibb told the crowd of 80 to 100 people at the Friendly Inn Settlement.
He acknowledged that residents weren’t all on board with his push to terminate court oversight, a push that the city is making with the Justice Department’s support…