Policing in Louisville and Biden budget come under microscope in Washington D.C.

Here & Now hosts Deepa Fernandes and Celeste Headlee speak with Washington Post Justice Department reporter David Nakamura about the federal investigation of policing Louisville, and Republican reaction to Biden's budget proposal with NBC senior congressional reporter Scott Wong.

This segment airs on March 10, 2023. Audio will be available after the broadcast.

The Department of Justice released their findings from an investigation into the Louisville Metro Police Department and Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government, per WDRB News. To no one’s surprise, they were found to have engaged in conduct that violates the constitutional rights of their residents and the federal law. There’s too much misconduct exposed in the 90-page review to fit in one read, so we picked out the five biggest takeaways. The DOJ found LMPD officers use neck restraints in situations where they really don’t need to use that amount of...

A federal probe, prompted by the police killing of Breonna Taylor, found that the Louisville Metro Police Department has a pattern of violating civil rights, conducting unlawful searches and discriminating against Black people and people with disabilities, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced March 8. The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division launched the pattern or practice investigation in April 2021. At that time, an LMPD leader told investigators that “Breonna Taylor was a symptom of problems that we have had for years,” Garland said, adding that the probe’s findings “bear that out.”...

The Justice Department announced that after a two-year investigation into the police department in Louisville, Kentucky, the DOJ found a “far-ranging pattern of discriminatory and abusive law enforcement practices,” The New York Times reported. Louisville police shot and killed 26-year-old Breonna Taylor in the middle of the night after employing a no-knock warrant to enter her apartment in 2020. Protests across the country followed her death, demanding investigations into police conduct.

The Justice Department has issued a scathing report on the Louisville, Kentucky, police department, documenting a “pattern or practice” of excessive force, unlawful stops, discrimination, failure to investigate sexual and domestic violence, and other charges. The findings follow a two-year probe into the Louisville Metro Police Department that followed the killing of Breonna Taylor, a Black Louisville healthcare worker who was shot and killed in her own home during a 2020 no-knock police raid. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the findings of the 90-page report on Wednesday.

The settlement in principle announced Wednesday between the U.S. Department of Justice and the city of Louisville could put the city’s police department under federal control for years to come. In Seattle, where a consent decree was issued in 2012 after a Native American wood carver was shot to death by police when crossing the street in front of a cruiser, the court-enforced accord is still in force 13 years later. And it has cost taxpayers $100 million. The first step in Louisville will be for the city to finalize...

The Kentucky city of Louisville and its Metro Police Department violated the constitutional rights of its residents for years – and especially the rights of Black people – a scathing report from the Justice Department concluded nearly three years after police officers killed Breonna Taylor there in a botched raid. “This conduct is unacceptable,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said Wednesday during a news conference. “It is heartbreaking. It erodes the community trust necessary for effective policing and it is an affront to the vast majority of officers who put their...

Nearly three years after the death of Breonna Taylor, a Department of Justice investigation confirms police in Louisville discriminate against Black people and engage in other "practice(s) of conduct that deprive people of their rights." Based on police data, documents and thousands of hours of police body cam footage, the DOJ concluded the Louisville Metro Police Department, made up of 81 percent of White officers, uses excessive force, including unjustified neck restraints and the unreasonable use of police dogs and tasers, conducts searches based on invalid warrants, unlawfully executes