The federal judge who has overseen reforms to the New Orleans Police Department for more than 12 years under a consent decree said Thursday that she would agree to end the agreement at the request of the city and the Trump administration.

The brief order from U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan does not immediately terminate the sprawling police consent decree , which has governed nearly every aspect of the NOPD since former mayor Mitch Landrieu agreed to it in 2012 after a scathing review by the U.S. Justice Department.

But Morgan's order projects an early end to the two-year "sustainment" period that she approved in January as an exit-ramp for NOPD.

That's because the Department of Justice , which under the Trump administration has undone several police reform deals nationally, say

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