Trump orders database on federal police misconduct to close

• A note on the database on the Department of Justice's website says Trump revoked an executive order signed by then-President Biden and the database will be decommissioned.

The big picture: The move by Trump fulfills a campaign promise to reverse police reforms that came out of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd.

• Trump reversed Biden's order creating the database, even though he had proposed it himself.
• It ends one of the defining moments of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations as many of the police reforms died amid infighting, political stalemate and a rising conservative backlash.

Context: Biden's Executive Order (EO) 14074 established a national database of police misconduct and required all federal law enforcement agencies to participate and use the database to screen personnel.

• It banned the use of chokeholds and carotid restraints "unless deadly force is authorized" and restricted the use of no-knock entries.
• It ensured "timely and thorough investigations and consistent discipline."

• It also mandated body-worn camera policies and the expedited public release of footage in cases of serious bodily injury or deaths in custody for all federal agencies.

And: It restricted the transfer or federal purchases of military equipment "that belongs on a battlefield, not on our streets."

• It also tracked data on use-of-force incidents.

By the numbers: The national database encompassed nearly 150,000 federal officers and agents, from the FBI and IRS down to the Railroad Retirement Board, per the Post.

• All 90 executive branch agencies with law enforcement officers had provided thousands of disciplinary records dating to 2017, a report issued by the Justice Department in December said.