Fri, Mar 12th 2021 11:59am
Tim Cushing
Last Wednesday, the House passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a bill that targets a number of aspects of law enforcement that need improvement, including two that have caused a considerable amount of collateral damage.
The bill [PDF] passed by the Democratic majority 220-212 with all but one member of either party voting the way you d expect them to vote bans discriminatory profiling, mandates more training on discrimination, and requires law enforcement agencies to collect data on investigatory activities. It also bans chokeholds and no-knock warrants, both instruments of death still permitted by far too many law enforcement agencies. The on-again, off-again limits on the requisition of military gear via the 1033 program are back on.