Four years after the U.S. Department of Justice found that systemic problems at the New Orleans Police Department led to widespread human rights abuses, a court-appointed monitor from Sheppard Mullin reports that progress has been made, albeit slowly.

Jonathan Aronie, co-managing partner of Sheppard Mullin’s Washington, D.C., office, wrote in his fifth and most recent report on the NOPD that new policing policies, expanded training, new body-worn cameras, updated in-car cameras and better record-keeping are all signs of improvement that his team has observed at the troubled police department.

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