The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump, the Justice Department confirmed, deleting a resource that experts said improved public safety by helping to prevent bad cops from jumping to new agencies and starting over with clean records.

The U.S. Justice Department has removed a database tracking misconduct by federal law enforcement, a list proposed by Republican President Donald Trump during his first term and formally created by Democratic former President Joe Biden.

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

The U.S. Justice Department has removed the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, which tracked misconduct by federal law enforcement officers. Initially proposed by President Donald Trump in 2020 following