The Justice Department on Wednesday began dismantling one of the Biden administration’s most controversial legacy projects, abandoning federal consent decrees aimed at imposing burdensome oversight of local police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville.
Led by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, the end of the consent decrees is the latest move in a sweeping rejection of Biden-era civil rights enforcement, which used disputed data and political pressure to justify massive federal oversight of law enforcement.
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