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Kamala Harris @SenKamalaHarris 11mWe just announced the first ever comprehensive police accountability and reform bill to:
- Create a national standard for use of force
- Expand pattern and practice investigations into police departments
- Increase independent investigations into police misconduct
The package would also change qualified immunity protections for police to enable individuals to recover damages when law enforcement officers violate their constitutional rights, it says.
The legislation would seek to provide greater oversight and transparency of police behavior in several ways. For one, it would grant subpoena power to the Justice Department to conduct pattern and practice investigations of potential misconduct and help states conduct independent investigations.
And it would create a National Police Misconduct Registry, a database to try to prevent officers from transferring from one department to another with past misconduct undetected, the draft said.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-New York, a co-author with Bass and the Democratic senators, will convene a hearing on the legislation this week. U.S. Sens. Cory Booker and Kamala Harris are the bills Senate co-authors.
https://www.ajc.com/news/justice-policing-act-announced-monday-congressional-democrats/5nkOlnaUEeg09kg0inatyM/
watch Sen. Harris (prompted through the twitter link) and others:
Link to tweet
haele
(12,581 posts)They should be under some form of Uniform Code of Standards of Justice -just like real soldiers, sailors, and Guardsmen who are now being referred to as "warriors" are. Otherwise, they're little more than a mercenary force or policing cos-players under contract by local "civic" leaders to fill arbitrary arrest quotas. Not a Public Safety organization, no matter what the assholes not fit to work with the public so they get promoted to admin "leadership" so they can manage the local Police Union like to spew.
Public safety shouldn't be approached the same as going to war. Even the "hard-core" active duty military and National Guard has strict and specific standards and procedures for interaction with civilian populations, whether or not they are being deployed in a war zone. Military brass turning a blind eye to this over the past couple decades for expediency notwithstanding.
Haele
(USN/USNR 1978 -1999; please don't feel the post-9/11 faux patriotism/post-Vietnam guilt need to "thank me for my service" )