Cleveland Police Department

The project is expected to wrap in 2025 and will house all of the Cleveland PD.

Bibb chose Leigh Anderson, an assistant professor with experience working on police oversight in several cities, to lead the office.

Activists say Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb did not follow the charter amendment that created the new Community Police Commission when he chose the members.

The federal judge overseeing police reforms under a federal consent decree with Cleveland, Solomon Oliver, said "while the city has made substantial progress, it has not yet achieved substantial and effective compliance at this time."

The gunshot detection technology will cover a 13-square-mile area of the city, encompassing about one-third of city residents.

If approved, the city would spend $2.8 million to expand Shotspotter to cover 13 square miles of the city.

A review of nine videos from Cleveland police shows instances where stops and searches were conducted based solely on alerts from the city's gunshot detection system.

Consent decrees force cities to change abusive police tactics. But Cleveland still has work to do.

Cleveland police have specially trained crisis intervention officers and a co-responder pilot program; advocates want more.

Speaking at a news conference Tuesday on police staffing and crime statistics, Bibb said his office was looking to speed up the city’s compliance with the 2015 consent decree.