President Donald Trump and the Justice Department have shuttered the first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police, the DOJ confirmed to the Washington Post on Thursday.

The database, created in response to the murder of George Floyd in 2020 by Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin, was designed to prevent bad police officers from jumping to new agencies and starting over with clean records. Ironically, Trump was the one to propose this database during his first term in 2020, but it wasn’t created until an executive order by President Joe Biden created the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database. Trump issued an order last month revoking Biden’s orders, and the database.

While the database only covered federal law enforcement officers and not local, state, or county officers, it contained nearly 150,000 federal officers and agents, from the FBI and IRS all the way to the Railroad Retirement Board.

Trump’s resending of Biden’s executive order was part of his effort to dramatically downsize the size and scope of the federal government. The order in question laid out steps to improve use-of-force standards and research, ensured appropriate use of body cameras, and required anti-bias training, in addition to creating a misconduct database.

  • Syl
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    1213 hours ago

    Is there an archive of the database anywhere?

  • @ninjabard
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    2716 hours ago

    Rescinding. Does nobody spell check anymore? Do better, Mirror.

    • Flying Squid
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      Why does anyone think the squiggly red line signals something that’s always optional at this point?

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        To be fair, “resending” isn’t going to trigger a red squiggly. That word choice does indicate a fundamental lack of knowledge and reflection on the part of the author though. Rescinding and resending aren’t quite antonyms but for fuck’s sake the author should be expected to be at minimum competent with the language.

    • @jaybone
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      Thanks, this was bothering me too. Thought maybe it was AI crap.

  • Flying Squid
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    It’s no longer misconduct if it’s approved of at the highest level.

  • @robbinhood
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    “Don’t tread on me, unless you’re a cop. If so, I will gladly lick the soles of your feet.”

  • @kikutwo
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    This should go over well. With his base.