The Trump administration is dropping a federal consent decree meant to improve Louisville's police force, but the city says it will keep its promise to do better.

We are moving forward with the Community Commitment, Louisville's consent decree.

This is an agreement between Louisville Metro government, the Louisville Metro Police Department and the citizens of Louisville.

It includes provisions to hire an independent monitor following community input.

This community commitment will lead to the same results we were pushing for in the court ordered consent decree.

Accountability is setting a standard and then holding ourselves to it.

And expecting that someone else will hold us to it.

Because if you don't tell me how to get better, then you're telling me one of two things.

You're telling me you don't think I'm capable of anything better than what I'm showing today?

Or you're telling me you just don't care about me?

We expect for our officers and everybody in metro government to have a culture of accountability and challenge each other to be better the next day.

City officials and the Department of Justice, under former President Joe Biden, signed off on a consent decree earlier this year that came years after the police killing of Breonna Taylor and the DOJ's findings of unconstitutional policing.

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice released this statement this morning, quote, we are ending the Biden Civil Rights Division's failed experiment of handcuffing local leaders and police departments with factually unjustified consent decrees.

Democratic state lawmakers representing Louisville say it's a disappointing decision.

I mean, I think the dismissal is, what we expected given the, the the federal election.

But it's also a hit, another hit that, hurts the city could fight the DOJ's move to dismiss.

But Mayor Craig Greenburg said it's time to move past the federal process and focus on the actual reforms.