The consent decree process started after a police officer killed George Floyd in 2020, sparking global protests. In 2023, the Department of Justice released a report that found the Minneapolis Police Department engaged in systematic racial discrimination and unconstitutional policing for years.

The Minneapolis police union filed a motion to intervene Friday in the federal court case that lays out the agreement between the city Minneapolis and federal government to reform policing. It also emerged Friday that the agreement appears unlikely to be approved by a federal judge before President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office Monday,

Murders have doubled in Minneapolis since 2020, and yet city Democrats are worried about finding more bureaucrats to babysit their police department.

The lack of transparency could diminish the buy-in on the consent decree from residents and, perhaps, police officers.

The federal consent decree formalizes many policies that the police department put in place when the world’s attention was on Minneapolis after George Floyd’s murder in 2020 that are also in the settlement with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights.