By of the Journal Sentinel If the U.S. Department of Justice agrees to Chief Edward Flynn's request for a formal review of the Milwaukee Police Department, it would launch a roughly two-year examination of all aspects of the force. Milwaukee would become only the ninth department in the country to submit to the voluntary process, known as a "." The process gives the Justice Department a less adversarial option than a consent decree, which is formal monitoring through its Civil Rights Division resulting from a pattern-and-practice investigation. Federal and local leaders in Las Vegas have credited the process for . The department, the first agency to undertake a collaborative review,...
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