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Okay Trump supporters. Explain this one. This makes no sense. Trump even proposed a more expansive database than the one Biden implemented (Biden's only tracked federal cops like the FBI), and yet Trump yeeted the entire thing. Had this been in effect when Randy Weaver's wife was killed that would (or should) have gone in it. Elon Musk is a bad influence on Trump. Bring back Steve Bannon.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/20/trump-justice-nlead-database-deleted/
The National Association of Police Organizations, a coalition of police unions and associations that says it represents 241,000 officers, repeatedly aired its concerns with the database in letters to the Biden administration beginning in 2022. As recently as last month, executive director William J. Johnson wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland noting that minor administrative infractions shouldn’t be included in the database, and that officers should have due process available to challenge being included in the data.
Johnson’s Jan. 14 letter expressed frustration that the Justice Department wasn’t listening.
“Our comments and recommendations on the establishment of a National Law Enforcement Accountability Database have been largely disregarded,” Johnson wrote. “As representatives of rank-and-file officers, it is incredibly concerning that their voices are being ignored.”
Johnson did not respond to a request for comment Thursday. Officials with the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association also did not respond to requests for comment. The FBI Agents Association declined to comment.
The initial actions by both Trump and Biden were attempts to impose police reform in the wake of seismic news events, beginning with the May 2020 slaying of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Trump issued his “Executive Order on Safe Policing for Safe Communities,” which called for improved certification for police, more training to deal with those in mental crisis, and “a database to coordinate the sharing of information” between federal and local law enforcement on “instances of excessive use of force.”
The Trump-proposed database would track terminations or decertifications of police officers, plus criminal convictions, civil judgments and resignations for improper use of force. But it was not enacted.
After Biden’s election, his administration pushed the “George Floyd Justice in Policing Act” in 2021, but it could not pass Congress. So in May 2022, on the second anniversary of Floyd’s death, Biden signed an executive order titled “Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing and Criminal Justice Practices to Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety.” It included proposals on strengthening officer recruitment, restricting “no-knock” warrants and limiting the transfer of military equipment to local police.
The order also created the national database. Unlike the proposed Trump database, it applied only to federal officers and federal agencies, and only those agencies could access the database. The Justice Department had been exploring ways to open the database so that state and local police could check it, too.
Damon Hewitt, the president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said when Biden signed the order in 2022 that “once [the George Floyd Act] was sabotaged, the administration has stepped up as much as it could via executive action.”
After the database went live in December 2023, the number of searches by federal agencies rose steadily, from around 400 in January 2024 to more than 3,000 in August, a December report shows. There were more than 4,000 officers in the database with nearly 4,800 reports of misconduct, and 25 queries to the database caused a “match” last year, enabling police personnel managers to dig deeper into someone’s background.
“This database helps law enforcement agencies ensure they are not hiring officers who have been criminally charged, fired for misconduct, or are otherwise unsuitable candidates,” said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, a D.C.-based think tank that advises police departments. “Problem officers tend to move from agency to agency, and police chiefs and sheriffs want access to any information that can help them avoid hiring a problem officer.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/20/trump-justice-nlead-database-deleted/
The National Association of Police Organizations, a coalition of police unions and associations that says it represents 241,000 officers, repeatedly aired its concerns with the database in letters to the Biden administration beginning in 2022. As recently as last month, executive director William J. Johnson wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland noting that minor administrative infractions shouldn’t be included in the database, and that officers should have due process available to challenge being included in the data.
Johnson’s Jan. 14 letter expressed frustration that the Justice Department wasn’t listening.
“Our comments and recommendations on the establishment of a National Law Enforcement Accountability Database have been largely disregarded,” Johnson wrote. “As representatives of rank-and-file officers, it is incredibly concerning that their voices are being ignored.”
Johnson did not respond to a request for comment Thursday. Officials with the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association also did not respond to requests for comment. The FBI Agents Association declined to comment.
The initial actions by both Trump and Biden were attempts to impose police reform in the wake of seismic news events, beginning with the May 2020 slaying of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Trump issued his “Executive Order on Safe Policing for Safe Communities,” which called for improved certification for police, more training to deal with those in mental crisis, and “a database to coordinate the sharing of information” between federal and local law enforcement on “instances of excessive use of force.”
The Trump-proposed database would track terminations or decertifications of police officers, plus criminal convictions, civil judgments and resignations for improper use of force. But it was not enacted.
After Biden’s election, his administration pushed the “George Floyd Justice in Policing Act” in 2021, but it could not pass Congress. So in May 2022, on the second anniversary of Floyd’s death, Biden signed an executive order titled “Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing and Criminal Justice Practices to Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety.” It included proposals on strengthening officer recruitment, restricting “no-knock” warrants and limiting the transfer of military equipment to local police.
The order also created the national database. Unlike the proposed Trump database, it applied only to federal officers and federal agencies, and only those agencies could access the database. The Justice Department had been exploring ways to open the database so that state and local police could check it, too.
Damon Hewitt, the president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said when Biden signed the order in 2022 that “once [the George Floyd Act] was sabotaged, the administration has stepped up as much as it could via executive action.”
After the database went live in December 2023, the number of searches by federal agencies rose steadily, from around 400 in January 2024 to more than 3,000 in August, a December report shows. There were more than 4,000 officers in the database with nearly 4,800 reports of misconduct, and 25 queries to the database caused a “match” last year, enabling police personnel managers to dig deeper into someone’s background.
“This database helps law enforcement agencies ensure they are not hiring officers who have been criminally charged, fired for misconduct, or are otherwise unsuitable candidates,” said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, a D.C.-based think tank that advises police departments. “Problem officers tend to move from agency to agency, and police chiefs and sheriffs want access to any information that can help them avoid hiring a problem officer.”
