Ferguson defunding consent decree

Ferguson defunding consent decree

In Aug. 2016, two years after the police shooting death of Michael Brown, Jr., U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry approved a 131-page consent agreement between the City of Ferguson and the U. S. Justice Department. Demonstrations in 2014 over Brown’s questionable death prompted the department’s investigation into the city’s police and court practices. The result was a 105-page report alleging patterns of illegal stops, searches, arrests and rou…