Justice Department ends police reform agreements and halts investigations into major departments
- by: Paula Reid, Casey Gannon, Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez and Devan Cole, CNN
- 2025-05-21
- Source:
CNN
- 05/22/2025
The Trump administration is moving to dismiss federal oversight agreements in Louisville and Minneapolis reached following the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor and police killing of George Floyd, and dropping investigations into several major US police departments.
The move, announced by the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, reflects the administration’s opposition to agreements that require reforms of police departments where the DOJ found a pattern of misconduct.
The agreements, called consent decrees, are approved by a federal judge and are used as a monitoring system for police department reform when an investigation finds that it is needed.
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