"It definitely takes a lot of pressure off the mayor, for sure," Sawyer said of the possibility of not having a consent decree. "It sounds as if the intention of the mayor was to do this, consent decree or no consent decree. And now it's no consent decree, so I think it would be wise for the mayor to keep with that commitment and go forward. ... It was a commitment made, and I think we should stand pat to that commitment, in spite of what the federal government does."