The Cincinnati Police Department has made significant progress in changing practices and building community relationships since race riots stunned the city in 2001.

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The report wraps up a six-year review of police procedures, policies, training and record keeping. It resulted from an agreement with the Justice Department a year after the riots and from a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and black activists who claimed 30 years of harassment by police.

The report was expected in October but was delayed when monitor Saul Green was appointed deputy mayor of Detroit in a shake-up of that city’s government. His report said Cincinnati’s police reform effort was one of the most ambitious ever attempted — and one of the most successful.

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