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The bill restores pre-2022 policing rules in D.C., benefiting those who want prior police authorities and preserving certain subtitles, but it reverses 2022 reforms—disadvantaging communities who sought those protections—and creates administrative costs and operational uncertainty for local government and law enforcement.
Residents of D.C. who prefer pre-2022 policing rules (and local law enforcement) regain the prior policing procedures and authorities that were in place before the 2022 law.
Specific provisions (subtitle S and subtitle A of title I) are kept in force, preserving the rules or protections those subtitles provide.
Communities seeking the 2022 reforms—particularly racial and ethnic minority communities and many urban residents—lose the changes and protections that the 2022 law provided.
Law enforcement agencies and oversight bodies may face uncertainty and operational disruption as roles, rules, and oversight structures revert to pre-2022 arrangements.
The D.C. government will incur legal and administrative costs to unwind the 2022 law and reinstate prior statutes and procedures.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Repeals the District of Columbia's 2022 policing and justice reform law, restoring prior law except for two specified subtitles that remain in effect.
Repeals the District of Columbia's 2022 Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act in full and restores prior law as if that 2022 law had never been enacted. Two specific portions of the 2022 law remain in force: subtitle S of title I (D.C. Code sec. 5–365.01 et seq.) and subtitle A of title I (D.C. Code sec. 5–125.01 et seq. and sec. 5–302).
Introduced September 3, 2025 by Andrew S. Clyde · Last progress November 20, 2025