The Daily Populous Saturday February 22nd, 2025 morning edition
Authored by police1.com and submitted by leeta0028

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice has shut down the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, a federal misconduct tracking system that was intended to prevent officers with disciplinary records from being rehired by other agencies, the Washington Post reported.

The database, created in 2022 under an executive order by former President Joe Biden, tracked misconduct among nearly 150,000 federal law enforcement officers and agents, according to the report. It was operational for just over a year, with all 90 executive branch agencies contributing disciplinary records dating back to 2017.

Trump’s order revoking Biden’s police reform measures was part of broader efforts to reduce the federal government’s size and costs, according to the report. The White House and the Justice Department did not provide specific reasons for deleting the database.

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Law enforcement accountability advocates criticized the decision, arguing that the database addressed the issue of “wandering officers” who move between agencies despite prior misconduct, according to the report. Some policing organizations had raised concerns about officers not being given due process to challenge their inclusion in the database.

The shutdown does not affect the National Decertification Index, a separate registry of state and local officers who have lost certification due to misconduct.

Uchihagod53 on February 22nd, 2025 at 01:49 UTC »

Serious question: has Trump done ANYTHING this past month to help the general public or has it been literally just dismantling everything?

Edit: and golfing

Peach__Pixie on February 22nd, 2025 at 01:38 UTC »

> A federal misconduct tracking system that was intended to prevent officers with disciplinary records from being rehired by other agencies.

Why track and penalize unethical/bigoted behavior when your administration encourages it?

wasted-degrees on February 22nd, 2025 at 01:38 UTC »

Rooting out corruption and fraud by deleting any evidence of it existing.

Edit: But wait, theres more! This move is conveniently timed to coincide with Musk’s private security team being deputized by the US Marshals Service.