By Robert Anglen
The Cincinnati Enquirer

A former U.S. attorney was tapped Tuesday as the new monitor to oversee sweeping reforms in Cincinnati's Police Department, a job that will cost taxpayers an estimated $6.5 million over the next five years.

After weeks of negotiations and closed-door meetings, lawyers for the city, the police union, the Department of Justice and an African-American activist group unanimously agreed to appoint Saul A. Green, an international business and immigration lawyer in Michigan.

Their selection comes two months after the resignation of the city's first monitor, Alan Kalmanoff, a Berkeley, Calif., attorney appointed by U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott in October.

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