Trump Deletes Database Containing Over 5,000 Police Misconduct Incidents

It's a reversal from his first term, when Trump himself ordered the creation of a database tracking excessive use of force.

In one of his first acts after returning to the White House, President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department to delete a nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal law enforcement.

Along with rescinding former President Joe Biden's executive orders on policing, Trump scrapped the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD), which logged more than 5,200 incidents of misconduct by federal officers and agents across various agencies.

In a written statement to The Washington Post, the White House said Biden's executive order creating the NLEAD database "was full of woke, anti-police concepts that make communities less safe like a call for 'equitable' policing and addressing 'systemic racism in our criminal justice system.' President Trump rescinded the order creating this database on Day 1 because he is committed to giving our brave men and women of law enforcement the tools they need to stop crime."

It is unclear what tool Trump is giving to law enforcement by deleting a nonpublic misconduct database—besides protection from future background checks.

Centralized databases of police misconduct are important because, traditionally, poor information sharing between departments and lax background checks have allowed problem officers to hop from one department to another, leaving a string of misconduct, rights violations, and expensive lawsuits.

Once upon a time, even Trump thought the database was a good idea. In 2020, the Trump White House issued an executive order directing the attorney general to "create a database to coordinate the sharing of information between and among Federal, State, local, tribal, and territorial
law enforcement agencies concerning instances of excessive use of force related to law enforcement matters, accounting for applicable privacy and due process rights."

Biden's NLEAD was actually less ambitious than Trump's plan: It included only federal law enforcement, and access was limited to federal agencies. Still, federal law enforcement unions objected, complaining that the database included minor administrative infractions and didn't give officers due process channels to dispute their inclusion.

The Appeal, a nonprofit publication covering criminal justice issues, obtained a copy of the now-deleted database through a Freedom of Information Act request and reported that the vast majority of federal law enforcement agents in the database were Bureau of Prisons (BOP) or Customs and Border Protection (CBP) employees.

"BOP and CBP employees comprised more than 70 percent of the more than 5,200 misconduct instances recorded in NLEAD between 2017 and 2024," The Appeal reported. "BOP officers accounted for more than 2,600 incidents—over half of all entries."

By deleting NLEAD, Trump isn't protecting beat cops from woke witch hunts—he's covering for two of the most sprawling, unaccountable, and expensive law enforcement agencies in the federal government.

Comments

[SQRLSY]

Twat a slurprise!!! Dear Orange Leader Himself is a Copsucker Supreme, Who Supports Political Violence dished out against His enemas, and-or favoring His Fiends, such ass Trumpanzees Gone Apeshit, Proud Boys, and Imperial Storm Troopers!

Troopers, Trippers, and Strippers!!! There's Spermy Daniels of course... And then Storm Troopers PLUS day-trippers tripping on Political Violence, such ass "Hang Mike Pence" and "Execute General Milley"!

[Mother's Lament - (Sarc's a Nazi, not even joking)]

Explain how deleting a secret "misconduct" list that people can't access or know if they are even on is a bad thing, Shillsy.

[SQRLSY]

Hey Copsucker... If cops do SNOT want to be on the list of cops who abuse the citizens... Then do SNOT abuse the citizens!!! Shit is pretty simple!!! And shit would be nice if citizen-abusing cops were SNOT able to get re-hired, and offend again!!! Duh!!!

(Twatever isn't perfect, should be aborted? PervFected YOU were SNOT aborted, so when YOU PervFectly advocate aborting all which isn't PervFect... Then OF COURSE PervFected You will SNOT be aborted, right, Oh Great Right-Wing Wrong-Nut?)

[rbike]

So reason could publish this database? My taxes then won't pay for it. I think I am good with it. The last administration was stocked with corrupt idiots. Everything they created is suspect. Just sayin'.

Did they delete Trump's original database? A real reporter would update the status of that. But that might not go with the D good, Trump bad narrative that Reason pushes.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...the White House said Biden's executive order creating the NLEAD database "was full of woke, anti-police concepts that make communities less safe like a call for 'equitable' policing and addressing 'systemic racism in our criminal justice system.'

Even a man skilled with the surgical precision that President Trump possesses cannot extract the cancerous woke parts of federal government, so he is forced to remove it all to save this great nation.

Seriously, though, I had hoped he would take that white hot (emphasis on hot) contempt that his wife has for federal law enforcement with him back into the Oval Office.

[Fist of Etiquette]

(If this story is true as written.)

[sarcasmic]

Can't have a policy of federal law enforcement violating rights of anyone suspected of not having papers while also logging those violations. It's one or the other.

Besides, you didn't complain when Democrats [insert strawman here] you hypocrite, which means you can't talk about Trump (tu quoque! tu quoque!).

[Don't look at me! (Not signed with autopen)]

What a mess.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Vodka and Red Bull will do that.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarc's a Nazi, not even joking)]

Hand sanitizer and a couple of Zyn. You're overselling Sarcasmic's tastes.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Do you think reports magically disappear if not in a federal database?

[TJJ2000]

Think the message is...
It's hard to trust a cash register ran by known criminals.

[Rick James]

Is this the database that is used to produce consent decrees? Because I just saw a forensic breakdown of those, and the whole consent-decree concept is an entire racket. And why does every local police incident need to be put in a federal database?

I'm not sure I'm that upset about this.

[Rick James]

Huh, well, if Literally Hitler created the database in his first term then it can't have to do with the consent decree system, so I guess I'm even less upset about it.

[MollyGodiva]

"why does every local police incident need to be put in a federal database?"

Because police brutality and deprivation of rights is a pure form of government violence and over reach. It needs to be tracked and measured to hold cops accountable.

[Don't look at me! (Not signed with autopen)]

By the government? More foxes watching the hen house.

[MollyGodiva]

"The Government" is not a single entity that moves with one voice. The civil rights people are very interested in such a database.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Then they can create one. Like others have for fake race hoaxes and men winning women's sports dumdum.

[MollyGodiva]

Police brutality is a big part of fascism. Trump needs to destroy those records and not collect them in the future.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

It is weird how we have a story from jus this week of one of your mayors blaming rhe victims of artifacts violence as you scream fascism. Weird.

[Eeyore]

I smell union involvement.

[HackJackerson]

Trump wanted database of excessive force incidents with due process and privacy protections. Biden creates database full of minor administrative infractions with lacking due process protections. Trump deletes said database.

If you view this as hypocrisy because you think the databases are equivalent you're being willfully obtuse.

[MasterThief]

That's what makes sense to me and fits the motivations of both. It's difficult for writers to understand the news if they choose to be excessively charitable to one side while always inferring ill intent from the other.

[Social Justice is neither]

But that perspective difference makes shaping the narrative so much more effective...or at least it did.

[sarcasmic]

Will you look at that. An executive order from Biden just went *poof*. Yet Trump defenders still attack anyone who points out that Congress needs to get involved because all of his executive orders will go *poof* like this one when Democrats retake the White House, making his rule by EO pointless.

[Don't look at me! (Not signed with autopen)]

Democrats retake the White House

Certainly won’t be in 2028.

[Incunabulum]

5,000 incidents? Over a decade? Across the country?

Then either law enforcement misconduct isn't an issue or the database is useless - both good reasons to stop spending money on it.

Good job Trump.

[AT]

the NLEAD database "was full of woke, anti-police concepts that make communities less safe like a call for 'equitable' policing and addressing 'systemic racism in our criminal justice system.'

Well then killing it with fire seems appropriate.

Once upon a time, even Trump thought the database was a good idea.

That's doesn't surprise me at all. Trump seems to be a very classical liberal in many regards, and he just seems to want the alt-left woke cult choked to death and their bodies paraded in the street as a triumph of the return to sanity.

Which, honestly, why isn't everyone on board with that?

CJ, of course, as an oppressor/oppressed Marxist clown world douche bag decided to take this in an ACAB angle. Because ACAB's gon' ACAB.

But anyone with a functioning brain sees this was the right call. And if Trump went back to "a database to coordinate the sharing of information between and among Federal, State, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies concerning instances of excessive use of force related to law enforcement matters, accounting for applicable privacy and due process rights" - I can't imagine the ACTUAL libertarian that would have a problem with it.

But CJ isn't a libertarian, and his boss KMW isn't either. They're TDS-insane Marxist clowns.