ABA JOURNAL — Katrice Williams attends Cleveland State University’s Marshall College of Law, which is in the same town where police killed Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was playing at the park with a toy gun, in 2014. After that, in 2015, the city entered a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice, agreeing to make fundamental policy changes after it was found that police there had a pattern of excessive force. A recently named fellow with the ABA’s Legal Education Police Practices Consortium, Williams says the full force of those policies have not been realized because of tensions between the city, the court-appointed monitor to oversee implementation of the consent decree and the community. She’s one of 39 consortium fellows, all of whom will be researching public data about local and state law enforcement agencies. “I’m collecting information about the Cleveland police department, the Cleveland State University campus police and other relevant entities, like the Cuyahoga [County] Common Pleas Court,” says Williams, adding that she will be looking at the city’s budget allocation for the police department, the university’s expenditure on police and use of force policies.