Trump Shuts Down DOJ Database Tracking Federal Police Misconduct
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The National Law Enforcement Accountability Database was used to weed out potential job candidates with poor track records.
The nation’s first database established to track misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump.
The National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, which Trump proposed creating during his first term in 2020, was closed Thursday. Federal law enforcement agencies are now unable to search for or add data, the Justice Department said.
The closure, first reported by The Washington Post, follows Trump revoking an executive order established by former President Joe Biden in 2022 that launched the database.
Biden’s order followed a series of nationwide protests and demonstrations against police brutality after the 2020 killing of George Floyd. Biden said he hoped the database, which was intended to weed out potential job candidates with records of misconduct, would “help rebuild trust and deliver the most significant police reform in decades.”
There were 4,790 records of federal officer misconduct and 4,011 federal law enforcement officers in the database, spanning from 2018 to 2023, according to a statistical brief released by the DOJ in December.
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