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 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 Justice Department on Wednesday began dismantling one of the Biden administration’s most controversial legacy projects, ...

The Justice Department said it will bring an end to investigations launched during the Biden administration after the deaths ...

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

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 ...