For more than six months we've been taking a critical look at police reform under federal oversight.

Seattle has been under a federal consent decree for about a decade.

A federal judge oversees the effort, but its members of a monitoring team who are the eyes and ears of the judge.

In an interview on CNN last month Seattle’s Police Chief Carmen Best said, “Having a federal consent decree did not resolve the issues that we are dealing with.”

Seattle has paid a team of police reformers millions of dollars. And we found some of those well-paid reformers are now on the east coast doing the same thing.”

It’s a lucrative line of work that allows members of monitoring teams the flexibly to work on more than one tea.

Take Matthew barge and Hassan Aden. Both are pulling double duty overseeing two consent decrees in two different cities - Baltimore and Cleveland.

Maryland Public Policy Institute’s Sean Kennedy says, “It’s their friends, hiring their friends, hiring their friends."

The MPPI seeks "to put free enterprise and individual opportunity at the center of Maryland’s civic life because they are time-tested systems for building a better society. We believe that individuals, families, and entrepreneurs are the engines of healthy civil societies only when they are left free from government overreach."

Kennedy says, “If we’re seeing a recycled group of people, we know they're coming in with preconceived notions and prejudices about how things should be done.”

In an email Baltimore Lead Monitor Kenneth Thompson stated he was not concerned about team members working on other teams in other cities.

Both Baltimore and Seattle have spent millions of dollars to reform police. Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best says recent protests are proof of a failed reform effort.