Harmeet K. Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department’s civil rights division, announced the decision days before the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.

The Justice Department on Wednesday began dismantling one of the Biden administration’s most controversial legacy projects, abandoning federal consent decrees aimed at imposing burdensome oversight of ...

and Minneapolis police departments. The suits sought to subject both cities to sweeping, minutely detailed consent decrees that would inhibit local policing for years, make area residents less ...

WASHINGTON—One night in April, Harmeet Dhillon was making spiced Indian tea she said she needed to power through her 12-hour ...