Full control and oversight of the Seattle Police Department was returned to city officials Wednesday when a federal judge formally ended 13 years of oversight stemming from a lawsuit over police abuses filed by the Department of Justice in 2012.

U.S. District Judge James Robart’s order dismissing oversight is a landmark for the city and the Police Department, which has undergone sweeping changes to its policies, procedures, discipline oversight, data collection and analytics since the DOJ in 2011 released findings of an investigation that found widespread use-of-force abuses by police and disturbing evidence of biased policing.

That investigation found that police used excessive force in one out of every five times officers went hands-on with citizens. The targets of the police abuses we

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