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In a major policy reversal under President Trump’s leadership, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced it is officially dismissing Biden-era lawsuits against the police departments in Louisville, Kentucky, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. The DOJ will also shut down ongoing federal investigations into other local law enforcement agencies—citing wasteful spending, flawed legal reasoning, and damaging federal overreach.
This move marks a dramatic shift from the Biden administration’s aggressive stance against local police—one that critics say was driven more by ideology than evidence.
The Hidden Cost of Biden’s “Police Reform” Agenda
Justice Department officials said the lawsuits and investigations were based on faulty data, misleading statistical claims, and an anti-police political agenda. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon told reporters that these consent decrees—which allowed the federal government to exert control over local police departments—were expensive, ineffective, and legally unsound.
“These actions cost taxpayers millions of dollars while doing little to fix the problems they claimed to address,” Dhillon said.
Many of these federal mandates, launched under Biden’s DOJ, would have cost over $10 million per department per year, with an average timeline of more than a decade to enforce. That’s more than $100 million per city, often with no measurable improvement in public safety.
Local Police Under Siege — But Not Anymore
Under President Trump’s renewed emphasis on law and order, the DOJ is returning authority to local police departments. Officials emphasized that consent decrees stripped communities of control and handed power to unelected federal monitors—many of whom had a clear anti-police bias.
“This was Washington micromanaging hometown police officers. That era is over,” Dhillon said.
Investigations in cities including Phoenix, Memphis, Trenton, Oklahoma City, and even Louisiana’s State Police will now be closed permanently, as the DOJ takes a fresh look at all open cases inherited from the Biden administration.
What You Need to Know
- These federal lawsuits accused local officers of unconstitutional behavior based on cherry-picked data.
- DOJ officials now say they were built on “flawed methodologies and incomplete evidence.”
- Consent decrees often last over 10 years, draining millions in taxpayer funds.
- Biden’s “reform” tactics are being replaced with common sense, constitutional policing under Trump’s DOJ.
Why It Matters to You
This is a win for taxpayers, a win for police, and a victory for local control. Instead of allowing unelected Washington bureaucrats to manage neighborhood crime from afar, President Trump’s DOJ is giving communities back their voice.
“We’re ending the Biden DOJ’s failed experiment,” said Dhillon. “No more handcuffing police departments with radical, unfounded consent decrees.”