Almost two years after a federal report highly critical of the Springfield police department, the U.S. Department of Justice and the city have announced they've agreed on terms for a consent decree:
This week, the D.O.J. announced, in conjunction with city officials, that they have agreed on a series of reforms. It’s theDuring a press conference Wednesday in Springfield, Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, listed several reforms in the decree.
The agreement also calls for Springfield’s new civilian police commission to have subpoena power and a budget. “These problems…did not happen overnight. So we don't expect to fix these problems overnight either,” Rollins said. “But we do expect for them to be improved and to work toward eliminating them entirely.”
The police department's narcotics unit was disbanded in 2021. The reforms will apply to the entire police force.
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