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Floyd Anniversary Marked Amid Police Reform Rollbacks

Floyd Anniversary Marked Amid Police Reform Rollbacks

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The Trump administration's decision to abandon police reform agreements represents a necessary course correction away from policies that handcuff law enforcement and burden departments with excessive oversight. These consent decrees relied on flawed methodologies and incomplete data while preventing police from effectively protecting communities and fighting crime. The focus should be on empowering federal, state and local law enforcement to ensure America's safety and prosperity for all Americans, rather than continuing failed policies that emerged from street violence and protests.

Abandoning police reform settlements five years after Floyd's murder sends a message that the government is willing to look away from harm being inflicted on communities, even when that harm is plain as day. The Justice Department's retreat from oversight agreements in Minneapolis and Louisville, along with terminating investigations into police departments nationwide, represents a betrayal of promises made to Black people and Americans as a whole after Floyd's death sparked global protests. This regression undermines accountability and allows officers to shirk responsibility for their actions while taxpayers continue footing the bill for civil judgments instead of the officers themselves.



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