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Trump's Department of Justice removes database tracking police misconduct

  • President Donald Trump shut down the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
  • The database, which tracked federal police officer misconduct, started under Joe Biden and is now inactive after Trump's revocation of the executive order.
  • The White House described the database as full of 'woke, anti-police concepts' that compromise community safety, according to a statement sent to the Washington Post.
  • The rescinded executive order included measures against chokeholds and provided guidelines for use of force, among other reforms.
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Trump's Department of Justice removes database tracking police misconduct

The Department of Justice has removed the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, which documented police misconduct across the country. The database was supposed to help law enforcement agencies make more informed hiring decisions when considering applicants with a history on the force. The NLEAD was established through a Biden-era executive order in 2022 and was officially launched in 2023. However, Trump first floated the idea in 20…

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President Trump reverses executive order; gets rid of national police misconduct database

President Trump has ordered the shutdown of the first nationwide database that tracks misconduct by federal police officers.

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National database tracking federal police misconduct 'no longer active' after Trump revokes Biden order

Trump originally proposed the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database in 2020 amid the killing of George Floyd, but it didn't launch until 2022.

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US government deletes database of police misconduct

The US government has shut down a database that records police misconduct. The NLEAD database was the first of its kind in the US and was established by presidential order from then-President Joe Biden in 2023. Police managers could use it to look up applicants for police jobs to see if they had committed crimes while on duty in another jurisdiction. The NLEAD (National Law Enforcement Accountability Database) website is now down. The US Departm…

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Trump administration closes national database that records police misconduct

Donald Trump's presidential administration has shut down a national database that tracked police misconduct, a resource that police reform advocates described as essential to preventing officers with misconduct from being transferred between agencies.

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Is Donald Trump whitewashing 'bad cops'? Executive order wipes out nationwide police misconduct database, – The Economic Times – Corruption By Cops

Is Donald Trump whitewashing ‘bad cops’? Executive order wipes out nationwide police misconduct database,  The Economic Times Source link

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ncja.org broke the news in on Friday, February 21, 2025.
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