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• Review policy and proce- dures to ensure they adhere to 21st century best practices .
• Maintain a relationship with the community based on trust and transparency . The time to build these relationships is before , not after , the incident .
• Demonstrate there is no pat- tern or practice of unconstitu- tional policing through data capture , analysis , and report- ing .
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The Crime and Justice Institute ( CJI ) has identified the 3 types of incidents most commonly ad- dressed by consent decrees and how to address them .
Survive the experience and thrive as an agency .
Successfully emergingerging from a consent decree requires a collab- orative approach and intensive data collection and analysis .
A consent decree is an agree- ment , and agencies should ask for a seat at the proverbial negotiation table .
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