Democrats unveiled new legislation to overhaul US police policy and hold police accountable for their actions. Here's what's in the bill.
, the legislation breaks down its approach to police reform through several sections: Police accountability, police transparency through data, improving police training and policies, and justice for victims of lynching.
Reforms outlined under police transparency, include establishing a federal register of police misconduct complaints and whether or not disciplinary action was taken. The bill would also require states to report incidences where of use of force and include the sex, race, ethnicity, and housing status of civilians targeted.
Lastly, the bill calls for justice for victims of lynching, and would make it a federal crime to "conspire to violate existing hate crime laws."Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event Friday, Feb. 14, 2020, in Henderson, Nev., Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said that the bill was a "first step" in targeting systemic racism in the US.
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