City, DOJ agree on outside team to help oversee APD
(WorldNews Mexico)

................................................................ It comes in response to a scathing report published by the independent monitor in November that said APD had failed at every level to police itself. The monitor evaluates the progress the city has made complying with the Court Approved Settlement Agreement it entered after the DOJ found in 2014 that officers had a pattern and practice of excessive force. In his latest report, monitor James Ginger — looking at the period from Feb. 1 through July 31, 2020 — found that officers failed to report use of force, detectives in the Internal Affairs Force Division were “going through the motions” in their investigations, APD...