Justice Department ends police department reform agreements, investigations, lawsuits

The Justice Department announced Wednesday that it has ended investigations into two police departments over questionable practies, in addition to reform agreements and lawsuits.

The department's Civil Rights Division said it is dismissing lawsuits against the police departments of Louisville, Ky., and Minneapolis, which the Biden administration filed after President Trump's election victory.

The lawsuits sought to subject the police departments to consent decrees after accusing them "of widespread patterns of unconstitutional policing practices by wrongly equating statistical disparities with intentional discrimination and heavily relying on flawed methodologies and incomplete data."