Trump deletes nationwide database on police misconduct founded after George Floyd murder

President Donald Trump and the Justice Department have shuttered the first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police, the DOJ confirmed to the Washington Post on Thursday.

The database, created in response to the murder of George Floyd in 2020 by Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin, was designed to prevent bad police officers from jumping to new agencies and starting over with clean records. Ironically, Trump was the one to propose this database during his first term in 2020, but it wasn't created until an executive order by President Joe Biden created the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database. Trump issued an order last month revoking Biden’s orders, and the database.

While the database only covered federal law enforcement officers and not local, state, or county officers, it contained nearly 150,000 federal officers and agents, from the FBI and IRS all the way to the Railroad Retirement Board.

Trump's resending of Biden's executive order was part of his effort to dramatically downsize the size and scope of the federal government. The order in question laid out steps to improve use-of-force standards and research, ensured appropriate use of body cameras, and required anti-bias training, in addition to creating a misconduct database.