The government is dropping lawsuits against Minneapolis and Louisville, Ky.

Harmeet K. Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department’s civil rights division, announced the decision days before the fifth ...

The DOJ announced the end to Biden-era federal consent decrees aimed at seizing long-term control of local police departments ...

The U.S. Justice Department is ending efforts to secure settlements with Minneapolis and Louisville over police violations of ...

Sweeping DOJ action dismisses lawsuits against Louisville and Minneapolis police departments, questioning the effectiveness of consent decrees and their financial burden.

The decision comes only a few days before the five-year anniversary of the killing of George Floyd by the hands of police ...

The decision reverses course on the use of consent decrees to ensure accountability of law enforcement agencies. It comes ...

The Justice Department said Wednesday that it is starting the process of dismissing lawsuits against police departments in ...

In the final weeks of the Biden administration, the Justice Department filed lawsuits accusing Minneapolis and Louisville, ...

The consent decrees were designed to reform police departments found to have patterns of misconduct. In Louisville, the ...

The Justice Department is working toward dropping reform agreements with police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville, Ky ...