Consent Decrees May Be Re-Negotiated: Emboldened by the newly appointed Trump administration, police chiefs and police union officials are beginning to discuss the possibility of a re-negotiation of consent decrees that were issued during the Obama administration. Julia Harte and Timothy McLaughlin at Reuters report that due to growing complaints of police abuse of power during the Obama administration, numerous consent decrees were put into effect to ensure that the use of force by police officers is being closely monitored. Officials have criticized these decrees as ineffective and frivolous in their spending. Numerous police officials want to discuss these decrees with Jeff Sessions, Trump's pick for attorney general, in hopes of renegotiating the terms of the decrees to hopefully make them more effective and economically sound. Sessions has been an open critic of such decrees in the past.

Chicago Shooting Numbers Continue to Climb: Over the course of an eight-hour period this Sunday, two people were killed and three were injured in incidents involving shootings in Chicago. Liam Ford and Megan Crepeau from the Chicago Tribune report that the gun violence death toll in Chicago continues to rise with this recent series of shootings that resulted in the loss of two lives. As of today, the total number of shooting victims in the city of Chicago for 2017 is 295.