The fallout continues after the withdrawal of a consent decree between the federal government and the Louisville Police Department.

Louisville officials dispute the notion that they delayed the consent decree, which was finalized under President Joe Biden's Justice Department, but did not receive a judge's approval before Trump took office.

As our June Lefler reports, the city says it's time to move forward with its own reforms.

Louisville officials announced the community commitment last month.

It largely replicates the goals and timeline of the proposed consent decree, including independent monitoring, just not by the federal government.

We have our community commitment that we're moving forward with, and so looking back at what the federal government did or didn't do is a waste of time in all honesty.

So let's let's move forward and how we make this community better and this police department better.

The day Trump's Justice Department said it would drop the consent decree, Breonna Taylor's mother to make a Palmer wrote to Louisville Public Media, blaming the city for not getting the job done sooner.

At a downtown forum this week, the mayor and chief of police pushed back on that idea.

Then Attorney General Merrick Garland came to Louisville.

March something of 2023.

We offered to provide a first draft of a consent decree that day to the United States Department of Justice.

They insisted that they would provide us with the first draft, notwithstanding our weekly requests.

Where that draft was coming.

We got the first draft of the consent decree 11.5 months later.

We said to the Department of Justice, who is getting this right?

And what can we do differently?

We will go anywhere.

We will.

We are willing to spend the money.

We are willing to spend the time we are willing to put in the work.

You tell us who's getting it right.

And they couldn't even tell us that at any point.

We said we are.

We are not waiting for this.

We are in the process of changing, and they were more concerned with protecting a case than they were with improving the police department.

And I'll just add, if we were using delay as a negotiating tactic, we would not have voluntarily signed the community commitment within hours of the Department of Justice announcing they were dropping the case.

It would have been a very different response.

We would have just said, okay, they're out.

That's in the past.

No more.

The city and former lawyers for the Justice Department say Louisville has been proactive.

Just to put this in context.

Folks, over 260 policies and changes have already been made before a Department of Justice consent decree was even finalized, which it never got before we had the Community Safety Commission.

We have not been waiting.

We have been taking action, and we're committed to that continued action.

Louisville fans can offer their input during two listening sessions this month.

Both are to discuss what the community wants from the Independent Monitor, a third party the city will hire.

The chair of University of Louisville's Criminal Justice Department will lead those sessions for Kentucky Edition.

I'm June Leffler, while the city of Louisville says it's replicating the original consent decree.

The Courier Journal reported today that a few things are missing in that plan.

That includes certain training on tasers, feedback surveys from arrestees, and more transparency around police misconduct investigations.