The Trump administration is putting a halt to agreements that require reforms of police departments where the Justice Department found a pattern of misconduct, according to a memo issued Wednesday.

A federal judge expressed skepticism about the Justice Department’s proposed police consent decree with Louisville.

A Kentucky man who shot at Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg when he was a candidate in 2022 was sentenced Friday to 17 years and 6 months in federal prison after a tense sentencing hearing where Greenberg spoke of the harm the attack has caused.

The Department of Justice sent a memo to the interim director of the civil rights division, ordering a freeze to all ongoing litigation and a stop to any new cases.

An Inspector General investigation into the case claims false statements were included in the felony arrest warrant and criminal complaint against Omari Cryer.

The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration

Donald Trump’s Justice Department suspends civil rights lawsuits and police reform consent decrees set up by the Biden administration.

Congressman Morgan McGarvey has sent a letter to the acting attorney general saying the Louisville community wants reform and feels federal oversight is necessary.

One day after the Trump administration injected fresh uncertainty into the fate of Justice Department agreements aimed at reforming local police departments with histories of misconduct and abuse, city leaders in in Minneapolis and Louisville pledged to follow through with agreed-upon reforms no matter what.

Congressman Morgan McGarvey sent a letter to the acting attorney general asking them to allow the decree to go through.

After a three-day trial, a federal jury convicted a Hopkinsville man for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl, as well as seven counts of money