Trump Reverses Biden’s Anti-Police Agenda

_WHAT’S HAPPENING_

The Justice Department (DOJ) announced Wednesday it will dismiss lawsuits against the Minneapolis and Louisville police departments, effectively ending Biden-era consent decrees that would have imposed federal oversight on these agencies.

Consent decrees are court-approved agreements designed to fix issues like misconduct or civil rights violations — often leading to federal oversight of local police departments for years.

The decision rejects the Biden-Harris administration's findings of unconstitutional policing in both cities in the aftermath of the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in 2020.

_THE FACTS_

• DOJ is withdrawing consent decrees for Minneapolis and Louisville police, calling them “factually unjustified.”

• Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said the Biden DOJ cherry-picked statistics and ignored context in its investigations.

• In Memphis, the Biden administration suggested that police were racially discriminating against the homeless. However, the city and police department are both majority-black, as is 75 percent of the homeless population.

• DOJ is also ending investigations in Phoenix, Memphis, Oklahoma City, Trenton, Mount Vernon, and the Louisiana State Police.

• Biden-era decrees would have governed officer training, hiring, discipline, and use-of-force policies in local police departments for years.

• Dhillon said the decrees would cost taxpayers hundreds of millions and reduce police effectiveness.

• Many of these investigations were initiated by former Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, an open supporter of defunding the police.

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