Several media outlets are reporting a false story to the American people, namely, that the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, which I lead, is hostile to the enforcement of our civil rights laws.

For example, NPR recently claimed that prosecutions of police officers were down and called for “resurrection” of the Civil Rights Division; Bloomberg reported the Division had relaxed “enforcement of protections in housing, education, and the workplace”; and the New York Times wrote that “racial justice work” has “languished.”