Joe Biden struggles to take action on US police reform
2 years, 7 months ago

Joe Biden struggles to take action on US police reform

Al Jazeera  

With Congress stalemated, the White House is stuck between reform advocates and police unions who are far apart on policies. After more than a year in office, President Joe Biden has not yet delivered on long-promised police reforms in the United States, leaving Black civil rights advocates and community activists disappointed. In January, the White House signalled Biden would soon sign an executive order to push through police reforms, though changes he could make are limited without congressional backing. Biden’s draft order, leaked in January and widely circulated, would have set national accreditation standards for police departments and opened a national database of “bad cops” – officers who had been tagged for misconduct, police and civil rights groups said. Reform advocates applauded the move towards standard setting and data collection, but have continued to call for more far-reaching reforms like ending qualified immunity – which protects police officers from being sued -, increasing criminal prosecutions of police who abuse citizens’ rights and ending dangerous “no-knock” raids “Although really good on a symbolic level and really good on certain very specific levels, it doesn’t achieve the kind of change that communities need,” Arthur Ago, director at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law said of the prospective executive order.

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Relatives of Tyre Nichols, George Floyd and Eric Garner say lack of police reform is frustrating
9 months ago

Relatives of Tyre Nichols, George Floyd and Eric Garner say lack of police reform is frustrating

Associated Press  

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Relatives of Tyre Nichols, George Floyd and Eric Garner — three Black men killed in violent confrontations with police officers — expressed frustration Friday with politicians who have failed to pass police reform legislation or have worked to invalidate laws intended to reduce chances that citizens’ encounters with police end in death. people have lost their children, …

House passes bill to overturn DC police accountability law
1 year, 8 months ago

House passes bill to overturn DC police accountability law

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Republican-led House approved a resolution Wednesday that would block a District of Columbia police accountability bill, further escalating the feud over the right to self-government in the nation’s capital. The city’s police union said in a statement that changes proposed by Republicans would “lead to violent crime rates exploding even more than they already have.” Congressional oversight …

State of the Union: Biden takes on police, gun and political violence
1 year, 10 months ago

State of the Union: Biden takes on police, gun and political violence

Hindustan Times  

Washington: During President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address in the United States Congress on Tuesday, there were three remarkably moving moments. And in recognising the three individuals, Biden brought a focus in his most important speech of the year to the three forms of violence that have engulfed the US — violence caused by law enforcement agencies, particularly …

What is the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act and can Congress pass it?
1 year, 10 months ago

What is the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act and can Congress pass it?

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A crucial component of the bill would overhaul the legal liability shield for individual …

Biden, Black caucus agree on path forward on police reform
1 year, 10 months ago

Biden, Black caucus agree on path forward on police reform

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Members of the Congressional Black Caucus left a meeting Thursday with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris with an agreement on how to address the issue of policing in America after the recent killing of Tyre Nichols. Before the meeting began, Biden said his hope was that “this dark memory spurs some action that we’ve all …

Biden signs policing order on anniversary of Floyd’s death
2 years, 6 months ago

Biden signs policing order on anniversary of Floyd’s death

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday to improve accountability in policing —a meaningful but limited action on the second anniversary of George Floyd’s death that reflected the challenges in addressing racism, excessive use of force and public safety when Congress is deadlocked on stronger measures. That the work of our time, healing the soul of this …

Two years after George Floyd's murder, Joe Biden to sign executive order on police reform
2 years, 7 months ago

Two years after George Floyd's murder, Joe Biden to sign executive order on police reform

Firstpost  

The White House called the move “historic” in a press release, but the new executive order does not go as far as the major police reform Biden promised during his election campaign Washington: Two years after African American George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer in a Minneapolis street, President Joe Biden will on Wednesday sign an executive …

How Joe Biden finds common ground with ‘defund the police’ campaigners
2 years, 8 months ago

How Joe Biden finds common ground with ‘defund the police’ campaigners

The Independent  

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Civil rights leaders condemn Senate’s failure to pass police reform bill as families of police shooting victims feel dishonored by lack of action from Biden on reform
3 years, 2 months ago

Civil rights leaders condemn Senate’s failure to pass police reform bill as families of police shooting victims feel dishonored by lack of action from Biden on reform

CNN  

CNN — Bridgett Floyd said she could barely find the words to describe her disappointment in lawmakers for failing to pass sweeping police reform legislation that bears her brother George Floyd’s name. “People are out here in desperate need and I don’t feel that Biden is stepping up as the President and doing the right thing.” A White House official …

Talks on police reforms sought by BLM protesters fail in Congress
3 years, 3 months ago

Talks on police reforms sought by BLM protesters fail in Congress

Al Jazeera  

Talks on police reforms in the United States that had aimed to stem the killings of Black Americans by police have failed in the US Congress after key Democratic negotiators were unable to reach an agreement with Republicans. In addition to banning chokeholds like the one that killed Floyd, the Democratic bill would have established a national database to record …

Congressional Negotiators Have Failed To Reach A Deal On Police Reform
3 years, 3 months ago

Congressional Negotiators Have Failed To Reach A Deal On Police Reform

NPR  

Congressional Negotiators Have Failed To Reach A Deal On Police Reform Enlarge this image toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images Drew Angerer/Getty Images Months of bipartisan negotiations over policing reform legislation have ended with no agreement, according to the lawmakers who led the process. "We weren't making progress — any more meaningful progress on establishing really substantive reform to America's policing," …

Biden to talk crime with city, police leaders nationwide
3 years, 5 months ago

Biden to talk crime with city, police leaders nationwide

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will host New York City’s Democratic mayoral candidate and other city and law enforcement leaders from around the country to talk about reducing crime. Eric Adams, Brooklyn borough president and the likely next mayor of New York, plus Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser and San Jose, California, Mayor Sam Liccardo are expected to attend the …

George Floyd’s Kin Meets US President Biden, Push for Bill Resumes
3 years, 6 months ago

George Floyd’s Kin Meets US President Biden, Push for Bill Resumes

The Quint  

Speaking on the Bill, Biden added, “The negotiations on the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act in Congress are ongoing,” underlining his support for the legislation that passed the House, but is yet to be enacted into a law. In March, the Democratic-led House of Representatives passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which aims to put an end …

George Floyd’s family urges Congress to pass police reform bill
3 years, 7 months ago

George Floyd’s family urges Congress to pass police reform bill

Al Jazeera  

A year after Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, his family presses Washington politicians to ‘work together’ on police reforms. The family of George Floyd met on the anniversary of his death with top legislators in the United States Congress and President Joe Biden to push for passage of police reform legislation stalled by policy disputes. Floyd’s death triggered nationwide protests and …

Biden to meet with Floyd family as police reform deadline unmet
3 years, 7 months ago

Biden to meet with Floyd family as police reform deadline unmet

Al Jazeera  

A year after George Floyd’s death, Biden’s goal of signing a police reform bill is stymied by Congress. The family of George Floyd, the Black man killed by police in Minneapolis a year ago, will meet US President Joe Biden at the White House on Tuesday, the anniversary of his death. Biden “has a genuine relationship with them, and the …

Families of Black men slain by police are hopeful for reform
3 years, 7 months ago

Families of Black men slain by police are hopeful for reform

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The family and representatives of Black men slain by the police met with senators and White House officials Thursday — and left optimistic that police reform could be approved by May 25, the anniversary of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Following a joint congressional address Wednesday night in which President Joe Biden asked Congress to approve …

After Floyd, Congress ready to plunge into policing laws
3 years, 8 months ago

After Floyd, Congress ready to plunge into policing laws

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Bolstered with new momentum, Congress is ready to try again to change the nation’s policing laws, heeding President Joe Biden’s admonition that the guilty verdict in George Floyd’s death is “not enough” for a nation confronting a legacy of police violence. Tuesday’s verdict launches “a new phase of a long struggle to bring justice to America,” declared Rep. …

US Congress urged to act on George Floyd police reform bill
3 years, 8 months ago

US Congress urged to act on George Floyd police reform bill

Al Jazeera  

Democrats demand passage of sweeping overhaul of policing after former officer Derek Chauvin is found guilty of murder. Police reform proposals pending in the US Congress gained renewed urgency following the conviction in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd, a handcuffed Black man in May 2020. “We still must reform …

After 2020’s BLM protests, real police reform proves a struggle
3 years, 8 months ago

After 2020’s BLM protests, real police reform proves a struggle

Al Jazeera  

Real reforms in US policing are slow to emerge as Derek Chauvin’s murder trial puts a spotlight on use-of-force rules When former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee on the neck of George Floyd as he lay handcuffed and dying face down in the street, it seemed an obviously excessive use of force. “The push around police department …

With Biden’s backing, Dems revive bill to overhaul policing
3 years, 9 months ago

With Biden’s backing, Dems revive bill to overhaul policing

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Cheered on by President Joe Biden, House Democrats hustled Wednesday to pass the most ambitious effort in decades to overhaul policing nationwide, able to avoid clashing with moderates in their own party who are wary of reigniting a debate they say hurt them during last fall’s election. She asked her colleagues if they would “have the moral courage …

US House passes police reform bill inspired by George Floyd death
3 years, 9 months ago

US House passes police reform bill inspired by George Floyd death

Al Jazeera  

The ambitious bill, which bans chokeholds and combats racial profiling, has faced pushback from moderate Democrats. A sweeping police reform package that bans chokeholds and aims to combat racial profiling was passed by the United States House of Representatives on Wednesday, days before the trial in the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, kicks off. The bill, which …

House Approves Police Reform Bill Named After George Floyd
3 years, 9 months ago

House Approves Police Reform Bill Named After George Floyd

NPR  

House Approves Police Reform Bill Named After George Floyd Enlarge this image toggle caption Alex Wong/Getty Images Alex Wong/Getty Images Updated Thursday at 10:40 a.m. ET House lawmakers on Wednesday passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a reform bill that would ban chokeholds and alter so-called qualified immunity for law enforcement, which would make it easier to pursue …

Defunding the police: Biden says he’s opposed
3 years, 10 months ago

Defunding the police: Biden says he’s opposed

CNN  

Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story ran on June 6, 2020. CNN — President Joe Biden said at a CNN town hall on Tuesday that he remains opposed to calls for “defunding the police” – a rallying cry for activists seeking reforms in law enforcement. In response to a question about how to avoid overly constraining police while …

US President Biden says no to ‘defunding the police’
3 years, 10 months ago

US President Biden says no to ‘defunding the police’

Al Jazeera  

US President would put more money into local policing to hire more diverse officers and train them better for the job. United States President Joe Biden said that instead of defunding the police, a main demand of the protest movement that erupted last year following the death of a Black man in police custody, he would put more money into …

Combatting racism in US police, re-joining climate pact: Has Joe Biden promised more than he can deliver?
3 years, 11 months ago

Combatting racism in US police, re-joining climate pact: Has Joe Biden promised more than he can deliver?

Firstpost  

On day one itself, Biden has promised to extend the pause on federal student loan payments, move to have the US rejoin the World Health Organization and Paris climate accord and ask Americans to commit to 100 days of mask-wearing Washington: Back when the election was tightening and just a week away, Joe Biden went big. Among other major initiatives …

How Joe Biden can root out racism in criminal justice
4 years ago

How Joe Biden can root out racism in criminal justice

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Karl A. Racine is the attorney general for the District of Columbia. Miriam Aroni Krinsky is a former federal prosecutor and the executive director of Fair and Just Prosecution, a national network of elected prosecutors working towards common-sense, compassionate criminal justice reforms. Biden should also immediately direct the Justice Department to reassess onerous conditions of federal probation and …

Here’s what police chiefs think Biden should do to help address issues with law enforcement
4 years ago

Here’s what police chiefs think Biden should do to help address issues with law enforcement

CNN  

CNN — Police chiefs across the country are hoping President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration will help them address a crisis of legitimacy and focus on reform measures after a string of high-profile shootings by police officers and subsequent protests roiled the nation this summer. A survey of almost 400 police chiefs, administered by the Police Executive Research Forum, asked law …

President Trump and Joe Biden offer opposing visions of policing
4 years, 3 months ago

President Trump and Joe Biden offer opposing visions of policing

LA Times  

Federal police clear the area of protesters around Lafayette Square and the White House in Washington on June 1, after which President Trump tweeted his praise. You can take the hand away, OK?” As protests and violence flared in Minneapolis this spring and summer after the death of George Floyd, a Black man, while in police custody, Trump threatened to …

Many California police reform efforts have stalled despite push from George Floyd protests
4 years, 3 months ago

Many California police reform efforts have stalled despite push from George Floyd protests

LA Times  

Three months after the police killing of George Floyd ignited national outrage and filled California streets with protesters, the Legislature is in the final hours of a session that is poised to deliver a much more modest law enforcement reform agenda than many expected. This is what has these folks in fear, the threat of the union coming after them.” …

States race to pass policing reforms after Floyd’s death
4 years, 4 months ago

States race to pass policing reforms after Floyd’s death

Associated Press  

RICHMOND, Va. — The death of George Floyd and widespread protests over racial injustice have prompted several states to move at a lightning pace to pass significant policing reform proposals that in some cases have languished for years. Many states had finished their normal legislative session at the time of Floyd’s death and are planning to address police accountability next …

US House passes sweeping police reform bill amid protests
4 years, 5 months ago

US House passes sweeping police reform bill amid protests

Al Jazeera  

Trump threatens a veto as civil rights groups and police unions square-off over changing rules for use of force. “In America today, a Black American is three times more likely to be killed by police compared to a white person,” said Representative Jim McGovern, a leading House Democrat. Speaking at the White House on Wednesday, Trump said Democrats “want to …

Donald Trump signs Executive Order on police reform even as he presses for 'law and order' after weeks of protests against racial injustice
4 years, 6 months ago

Donald Trump signs Executive Order on police reform even as he presses for 'law and order' after weeks of protests against racial injustice

Firstpost  

President Donald Trump, facing criticism that his policies and inflammatory rhetoric have aggravated a racial divide in the United States, signed an order on Tuesday that he said would reform police practices even as he pressed for ’law and order’ nationwide. Washington: President Donald Trump, facing criticism that his policies and inflammatory rhetoric have aggravated a racial divide in the …

Trump signs order on police reform, doesn’t mention racism
4 years, 6 months ago

Trump signs order on police reform, doesn’t mention racism

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Following weeks of national protests since the death of George Floyd, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that he said would encourage better police practices. Trump said that, as part of the order, the use of chokeholds, which have become a symbol of police brutality, would be banned “except if an officer’s life is at risk.” …

Trump signs executive order aimed at reining in errant police
4 years, 6 months ago

Trump signs executive order aimed at reining in errant police

Al Jazeera  

Advocates for reform say Trump ‘law and order’ approach does not go far enough as Democrats prepare broader legislation. Calling for unity as legislators in Washington, DC debate police reform and cities across the country struggle to address anti-police protests, President Donald Trump signed a new executive order on Tuesday that he said, “encourages police departments to adopt the highest …

Liberals warn Biden: Do more on policing or lose Black support
4 years, 6 months ago

Liberals warn Biden: Do more on policing or lose Black support

Al Jazeera  

Letter urges Biden to do more than simply ‘make amends’ for policies he favoured in the past. More than 50 politically left-of-centre groups in the United States have signed a letter to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, warning he could lose Black voters’ support unless he commits to more transformative policing reforms. The letter, spearheaded by Black organisations like Black …

Police reform: Trump offers full-throated defense of police in executive action signing
4 years, 6 months ago

Police reform: Trump offers full-throated defense of police in executive action signing

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump took his first concrete steps on Tuesday to address growing national outcry over police brutality even as he offered a staunch defense of law enforcement that left little question about his allegiances. But nobody wants to get rid of them more than the really good and great police officers.” Trump said he was taking executive …

US Congress, Trump contest police reforms after protests
4 years, 6 months ago

US Congress, Trump contest police reforms after protests

Al Jazeera  

Emotional US legislative debate comes as big states and cities move ahead with sweeping reforms of police departments. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said on Monday in Houston as he met with Floyd’s family that he does not support “defunding” police, a rallying cry of the protesters. “We need the police to stop killing us, to stop beating us up, …

Joe Biden Has Come A Long Way On Criminal Justice Reform. Progressives Want More
4 years, 6 months ago

Joe Biden Has Come A Long Way On Criminal Justice Reform. Progressives Want More

NPR  

Joe Biden Has Come A Long Way On Criminal Justice Reform. And while Biden has rejected progressive demands for something that Trump is eager to tie his fall opponent to — "defunding" police departments — Biden has said that federal funding for law enforcement should be "based on whether or not they meet certain basic standards of decency and honorableness." …

George Floyd protests have made police reform the consensus position
4 years, 6 months ago

George Floyd protests have made police reform the consensus position

CNN  

Washington CNN — Something extraordinary is happening in America: 14 days of protests from coast to coast against police brutality and racism have produced a wave of change in public opinion on police reform. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has said publicly that he would be open to supporting some provisions in the Democrats’ bill including linking police training to …

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