The Justice Department has unveiled an agreement with the City of New Orleans to reform the city’s beleaguered police department. Known as a consent decree, the deal imposes hundreds of new policies overseeing police actions including the use of force, searches, seizures, arrests and interrogations. New Orleans police officers have been linked to a number of cases of unlawful force and even covering up their crimes, including the shooting deaths of two people on the Danziger Bridge in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. A Justice Department probe last year found corruption and dysfunction in nearly every area of the New Orleans police force.