>a plan is being formulated to delay the new FBI director’s entry into the agency for three to four months
That plan will fail.
John Kirby [White House press conference]: As of today, the State Department has issued seventy-six thousand Special Immigrant Visas for Afghan partners and their families, surpassing the number of SIVs issued by all previous administrations, combined, since the program began back in 2009.
Kirby: We have no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security, or a public safety threat, or have a foreign nexus. The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are investigating these sightings, and are working closely with state and local law enforcement to provide resources, using numerous detection methods, to better understand their origins. Using vary sophisticated electronic detection technology provided by federal authorities, we have not been able to, and neither have state or local law enforcement authorities, corroborate any of the reported visual sightings. To the contrary, upon review of available imagry, it appears that many of the reported sightings are actually manned aircraft that are being operated lawfully…we urge congress to pass important legislation that would extend and expand existing counter drone authorities, so that we are better prepared to identify, and mitigate, any potential threats to airports, or other critical infrastructure, and so that state and local authorities are provided all the tools that they need to respond to such threats as well.
KENTUCKY: "Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said on X the city has entered a federal consent decree after 10 months of negotiations with the United States Department of Justice. The document lays out a roadmap for policing reform that the city is required to complete. The agreement will be overseen by federal judge Benjamin Beaton and an independent monitor. The consent decree is the end result of the DOJ’s in-depth investigation into the Louisville Metro Police Department, which began after the high-profile police killing of Breonna Taylor in 2020. A report released in March 2023 outlined a variety of unconstitutional and racially discriminatory policing practices by the department and detailed several harrowing cases of excessive force by officers.
Throughout the process, Greenberg administration officials said they wanted to avoid a deal that would hamper the police department’s ability to enforce the law and arrest criminals. Greenberg also expressed concerns that some cities that have entered into consent decrees have found them hard to get out of years later, when city officials feel like they’ve met the terms of the deal.
Community activists recently put pressure on the Greenberg administration to sign the deal before former President Donald Trump begins his second term in January. Trump’s DOJ during his first term in office was skeptical about federal police reform mandates. Activists argued that LMPD can not be trusted to reform itself and that federal intervention is necessary to rebuild trust."
https://www.lpm.org/news/2024-12-12/louisville-signs-consent-decree-starting-lengthy-police-reform-effort