WCPN Hassan Aden was named Cleveland's police monitor in 2019, after serving as deputy monitor under Matthew Barge. In the wake of the forced departure of Ayesha Bell Hardaway from Cleveland Police Monitoring team—the outside agency that examines Cleveland’s progress under the federal consent decree—two prominent Black organizations are calling for the monitor himself to be replaced. The Norman S. Minor Bar Association, which represents Black attorneys in Northeast Ohio, and the Cleveland branch of the NAACP say Cleveland’s police monitor, Hassan Aden, has shown bias in favor of law enforcement and a lack of understanding about community concerns.