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The Department of Justice has shut down a database that tracked misconduct by federal law enforcement.
On Thursday (February 20), the Washington Post reported that the database's website appeared to be taken down. The Justice Department website states the database is no longer active after President Donald Trump revoked an executive order by President Joe Biden that formed it.
The DOJ database aimed to prevent bad actors in law enforcement from jumping to new agencies and starting over with clean records. As of September 2024, the database held 4,790 records of federal law enforcement misconduct from 2018 to 2023.
The shutdown comes after Trump proposed creating a database to track "instances of excessive use of force related to law enforcement matters" in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in 2020. The list was formally created under a Biden executive order.
Last month, Trump reversed Biden's executive order and pardoned two Washinton police officers who were convicted of murdering Karon Hylton-Brown, a 20-year-old Black man, in 2020.
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