consent decrees

The Biden criminal-justice plan would slap crippling cost of consent decrees on police without any evidence of civil rights violations, and would expand consent decrees to prosecutors' offices for prosecuting crime. Black Lives Matter, Kamala Harris, and Biden are silent on the topic of Black-on-Black homicide.

Under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the DOJ appears to be turning away from the use of consent decrees, a tool traditionally used to enact civil rights reforms across federal agencies.
For decades, the Department of Justice has used court-enforced agreements to protect civil rights, successfully desegregating school systems, reforming police departments, ensuring access for the disabled and defending the religious.