DOJ moves to cancel police reform settlement reached with Minneapolis - MinnPost

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : "It's our view at the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division under the Trump administration that federal micromanagement of local police should be a rare exception, and not the norm," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, the new leader of the division, told reporters.
41% : She cited the hefty cost on communities to comply with federal oversight -- sometimes for more than a decade -- and what she described as problems and abuses in the consent decree monitoring system.
34% : Police reform advocates denounced the move to walk away from the agreements, saying a lack of federal oversight will put communities at risk.
23% : The moves represent a dramatic about-face for a department that under Democratic President Joe Biden had aggressively pushed for federal oversight of local police forces it accused of widespread abuses.

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