President Trump has ordered the shutdown of the first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers.

The closure, first reported by the Washington Post on Thursday, ends the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database — a resource experts said improved public safety by preventing bad officers from jumping from agency to agency.

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    Genuinely wondering what portion of conservative voters support something like this.

    It seems kinda indefensible really.

    If a cop is terminated from one agency due to misconduct, why would you want them employed by your local agency?

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      Genuinely wondering what portion of conservative voters support something like this.

      Probably the kkk portion.

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      because they, the “conservative” maga nuts, want those bad apples in positions of power. those boys like to hurt “them”.

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      Visiting my MAGA family for a few weeks. It’s only been two days and I can assure you that they don’t and won’t know any of this. They’re convinced by the double speak, in between Cialis and car dealership commercials that this is what they want.

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        It’s fucking insane how gullible some of these people are. I still spend time on Facebook and see a lot of their rhetoric and they’ll literally post screenshot of TikTok videos from random people as proof of some massive conspiracy being committed by the “deep state” or whatever the current news cycle is telling them to hate.

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      Most Reich Wingers want no oversight of their armed thugs.

      Until it personally affects them.

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      If a cop is terminated from one agency due to misconduct, why would you want them employed by your local agency?

      You see, holding cops accountable for murdering black people is woke DEI nonsense, and therefore the database is Stalin’s SS Gestapo!

      Or something like that 🤦

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    I feel like a good guide to “good policies the next democratic presidential candidate should promote” should be the opposite of the list of things Trump did in his first month.

    Its going to be a 60 year-old rich democrat from New England promising to “work across the aisle” and “promote small businesses with tax cuts and less regulation”, but hopefully some of this stuff will be undone.

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      How fucking naive are you people? Do you just not listen to the words people say? Do you think they’re joking?

      “I love you. You got to get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not going to have to vote.”

      Go to protests now, or it will be too late.

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      Its going to be a 60 year-old rich democrat from New England promising to “work across the aisle” and “promote small businesses with tax cuts and less regulation”, but hopefully some of this stuff will be undone.

      Optimistic of you to assume that they’re not going to appoint someone like Chuck Schumer (74), Dick Durbin (80), or Nancy Pelosi (84) as the nominee after another blatantly rigged primary process…

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    Why would we hold police accountable for beating the shit out of people and other crimes? They earned a shield and that shield means the law doesn’t apply to them. It’s the best reason to be a cop.

    If you can’t tell that this is sarcasm, you don’t belong on the internet.