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Law’s Ayesha Bell Hardaway reinstated to Cleveland police monitoring team

DOJ’s historic week was more about restoration than reform

Reuters: Ayesha Bell Hardaway, assistant professor of law and co-director of the Social Justice Institute, was cited for her role as a member of the Cleveland police monitoring team, following the Department of Justice’s announcement of a slate of new policies representing a historic extension of its mission to guard civil and constitutional rights—a sharp pivot from the Trump administration’s ultraconservative tough-on-crime approach to law enforcement.