President Trump signed an executive order on police reform Tuesday. The order will create a database to track officer misconduct and calls for a ban on chokeholds, except when an officer feels their life is endangered, among other changes. More:
President Trump speaks during an event on police reform in the Rose Garden of the White House Tuesday.President Trump speaks during an event on police reform in the Rose Garden of the White House Tuesday.President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday encouraging police departments to improve training — a step critics say falls short of what is needed to curb police officers' use of force against nonwhites.
In a Rose Garden ceremony, which at times sounded like a campaign speech, Trump largely defended police officers, saying Americans"demand law and order. They may not say it, they may not be talking about it," he said,"but that's what they want."The order will create a database to track police officers with multiple instances of misconduct, and use federal grants to encourage departments to meet certain higher certification standards on use of force.
It wasn't immediately clear what practical effect that might have given questions about Trump's powers over what is mostly state and local authority for law enforcement and the shortcomings in theRepublican Rep. Jim Jordan called the order a"tremendous step forward in improving the system and beginning a new era in the relationship between communities and the police officers that keep them safe.
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