Democrats to Propose Broad Bill to Target Police Misconduct and Racial Bias

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN

Democrats in Congress plan to unveil expansive legislation on Monday that would make it easier to prosecute police misconduct and recover damages from officers found to have violated the constitutional rights of civilians, and step up pressure on the Justice Department to address systemic racial discrimination by law enforcement.

The bill, which House and Senate Democrats have named the Justice in Policing Act of 2020, is a direct response to the recent killings of three black Americans by white civilians and officers that have prompted protests across the country, but it includes policies that civil rights activists have been pushing for decades to combat racial bias and excessive use of force by law enforcement. The New York Times obtained a copy of a section-by-section summary of its contents, circulated privately on Capitol Hill late Friday.

It would be the most aggressive intervention into policing by Congress in recent memory, and elements of it are certain to meet with staunch opposition from politically powerful police unions and other law enforcement groups that have fought against such efforts in the past. It is not clear whether President Trump, who often aligns himself with law enforcement and has advocated the use of brutal police tactics, will embrace such measures now.

As currently proposed, it would significantly change federal law and require states and localities to make modifications of their own, such as instituting mandatory bias training, to receive federal funds. It would create a national registry to track police misconduct and require that law enforcement agencies report data on the use of force, as well as ban certain chokeholds and other practices that were used in confrontations with the police that left black Americans dead.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/democrats-to-propose-broad-bill-to-target-police-misconduct-and-racial-bias/ar-BB1583R4?li=BBnb7Kz

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Of course, Republicans will oppose this and say that police need to protect themselves from folks like this 70 year old man:

[PSPS]

1. Doomed to end up in Moscow Mitch's trash bin with all the other bills. Packing the courts is job #1

[calimary]

2. And NOT ONE of them stopped to render aid.

One of them paused and was pushed away by another officer (or should I say "stormtrooper"?)

And this was an old WHITE guy!

And the aggressors just kept on walking. Some of them didn't even glance over at him as he laid there bleeding FROM THE HEAD. Old man. Probably on some sort of blood-thinner medication, which I'd guess because of how rapidly the blood had flowed from his fresh head wound. Just a couple of seconds after his head hit the pavement, there was already a puddle of blood.

My husband's on blood thinners, and it's rather startling how quickly bleeding can start.

And literally NOBODY stopped to try to give first aid. I would also guess that all those stormtroopers had received at least SOME first aid instruction as part of their training (assuming they'd had training of some sort). Same thing with the police. Don't they all take first aid courses as part of their jobs or part of their entry onto the force? Don't they take instruction in the impact of chokeholds and other restraints from moderate to extreme?

Maybe somebody here can help me out with this. It just seems to me that ANYBODY going into law enforcement where you're called upon to involve yourself with people in close contact would have to go through some training in basic first aid. Wouldn't they have to know at least the rudimentary life-sustaining techniques like CPR and knowing how to take a pulse and recognizing the physical symptoms of someone losing consciousness - AND WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOU SEE THAT? Don't they have to have at least some minimal training on that - even if it's just to carry through while they wait for the ambulance or other first responder they just called to the scene?

[ancianita]

14. Buffalo's mayor said that police are trained to forward 'clear' on orders & that they have

CPR people in the rear. Which can stop and help while the forwards keep "clearing" the vicinity. He said that's part of their training. Just relaying what I saw on MSNBC. I don't think the video continues long enough to show that, so I don't know who helped the old man next.

Google offers sites about every city and state's police training. Here's the one for Erie County.
https://www.lawenforcementedu.net/new-york/how-to-become-a-police-officer-in-new-york/

[yaesu]

3. it will get as far as the last stimulus bill, nowhere. Our party needs to defund everything the

fascists want, security for the orange nazi, defund defense, defund all police monies, everything and QUIT helping the orange hitler by funding the government, shut down the fascist, never work with them.

[mpcamb]

5. Agree, but do it anyway.

Refine it and pass it in the next congress along with an end to that "Qualified Immunity." for cops which the Supreme Court made up.

[jaxexpat]

11. Defund the Supreme Court

What could it hurt?

[totodeinhere]

7. I understand your frustration, but I don't think that a majority of voters would support such strong

measures right now. Defense spending always polls very well. And defunding the police might scare a lot of voters. I think we need to win the November election first then next January we can start fixing things.

[paleotn]

8. It's as much political as practical....

Go ahead, vote against it, don't take it up, kill it in committee, whatever. I dare you. Same with stimulus, particularly this fall when the economy is struggling with the feedback from depressed demand. Oh, yea, Mitch. Remember that stimulus legislation you refused to take up in the Senate? Ooops. Personally, I think Senator McGrath has a nice ring to it.

[Grokenstein]

4. Remember this when

...some Mommy's Little Clever bell-end chirps, "Both parties same! Both sides bad!" in an attempt to make their intellectual laziness seem S-M-R-T.

[totodeinhere]

6. I doubt if anything like this could get through Congress but it's a good idea to try anyway.

Then we will force Republicans in Congress to go on record one way or the other and it would give us a good campaign issue that might help us in the November election.

[Bengus81]

9. Let McConnell and Rand Paul hold it up and run hundreds of commercials....

I can see it on the Lincoln Project now...........

[bucolic_frolic]

10. They should lean on the psychological evaluations

and be much more in-depth and rigorous. It's a personality profile, not a waiver. Statistics should show at this point what's not working out well. It should be more than a consult fee, nothing wrong here, pass.

[BamaRefugee]

12. if we're just going to do pointless things, screw this and just impeach trump EVERY SINGLE DAY

[Coventina]

13. FTP & ACAB