Overview

• On August 12, 2025, the DOJ declared that Suffolk County Police had achieved sustained substantial compliance with the 2014 consent decree and formally ended federal monitoring.
• In May 2024 the Justice Department had already stopped overseeing certain agreement provisions after finding substantial reforms in hate-crime reporting and misconduct complaints.
• The DOJ’s final report cited a Stonewall Analytics review of nearly 160,000 2023 traffic stops that detected no daytime-versus-nighttime racial bias.
• LatinoJustice and other civil-rights groups argue the traffic-stop analysis overlooks demographic disparities and decry the decision as politically motivated.
• Suffolk County officials and Police Benevolent Association leaders hailed the oversight’s conclusion as proof of departmental professionalism, with some officers calling the settlement an unwarranted federal overreach.