Minneapolis and the federal government reached a consent decree agreement after a Biden administration investigation.

Mayor Jacob Frey says the city will forge forward with consent decree without a judge’s signature, but that promise is not a legal mandate.

The consent decree is part of a settlement outlining sweeping reforms to the Minneapolis Police Department. A two-year DOJ ...

If the Maryland legislature hadn’t “turned a blind eye” to police reform in 2014 and 2015, Freddie Gray might still be alive, ...

The Legislature is considering bills that would increase public oversight of charter schools, but some bills are struggling ...

As others have said: crime is nonpartisan. Crime has decreased across the U.S. during the past three decades overall, and the ...

Kao Kalia Yang, a Hmong-American writer who lives in St. Paul, made Minnesota Book Award history Tuesday when she won awards ...

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty is being called America’s “wokest” county attorney as political pundits blast her ...

While other reform bills were introduced after 2016 ... George Floyd was murdered in May 2020 by Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis, Minnesota, police officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck for ...

With the loss of moderate voices, the Legislature transitioned to a highly polarized branch of government, angering many ...