Key provisions of the 42-page Cincinnati racial profiling settlement and timetable for launching them:

        Next:

        • A “fairness hearing” in U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott's court. All members included in the proposed class-action lawsuit can weigh in with any objections. A date has not been set, but it could take place within the next month.

        Within 60 days after the hearing:

        • Cincinnati must coordinate with other city departments the police force's new focus on Community Problem-Oriented Policing (CPOP). CPOP is a philosophical shift from community-oriented policing that requires more focus on targeting a problem first, then coordinating the effort to fix it by tailoring police response to the specific neighborhood issue.

        • All parties in the suit (the city, FOP, Black United Front and ACLU) must develop a system for regularly researching other places where CPOP is done well. They also must develop a plan to conduct CPOP training for community groups, youths, business owners and others.

        • Police must develop a process to collect examples of problem-solving from the field and make them available to the public.

        • All parties must gather information on how other police agencies and other professions — including the military and business — do problem-solving.

        • Cincinnati police must create a Community Relations Office.

        Within 90 days after the hearing:

        • The city must develop a system for consistently informing the public about police procedures, and perform a “communications audit.”

        • Commanders of the city's five police districts and special units must start filing quarterly reports that detail problem-solving efforts. Reports must be available to the public through the new community relations office.

        • Parties must review existing training and recommend any new training for recruits, officers and supervisors “about the urban en vironment in which they are working.”

        • Parties shall, with the advice of experts, develop ways to evaluate whether the agreement's goals have been attained.

        120 days after the hearing:

        • Establish annual CPOP award to recognize citizens, officers and other public officials for good problem-solving.

        180 days after the hearing:

        • Develop problem-tracking system to document problems officers find and how they analyze and respond to them.

        • Develop new system, or link together existing sources of information, to track repeat criminal offenders, repeat victims and/or repeat locations of crime that are necessary to do CPOP.

        A year after the hearing:

        • The parties will do a status report on problem-solving throughout the department and what is being done to improve it. Each group involved in the suit must contribute what it has done to help.

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