Cleveland police monitor seeks court help on equipment plan

The independent monitor overseeing an agreement to reform the Cleveland police department says he will ask a federal judge to address the city’s inability to devise a detailed plan on providing equipment like cruisers and in-car computers to officers. A planned court conference next month will be the first time monitor Matthew Barge will ask U.S. District Judge Solomon Oliver to directly intervene in Cleveland’s agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice.