DOJ dismisses pending police reform consent decrees
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Federal · DOJ Civil Rights Division motions to dismiss with prejudice · May 21, 2025
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On May 21, 2025, the DOJ Civil Rights Division moved to dismiss with prejudice its police reform lawsuits against the Minneapolis and Louisville police departments, closed investigations into six other agencies including Phoenix, Memphis, Oklahoma City, and the Louisiana State Police, and retracted Biden-era findings of constitutional violations. Federal judges granted the dismissals, ending the Minneapolis case in June 2025 and the Louisville case in January 2026, leaving no federal oversight of departments with documented patterns of civil rights violations.
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