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The House is expected this week to pass a major police reform bill. Senate action remains TBD.
Democrats want to impose a federal ban on chokeholds and require law enforcement offices to use dashboard cameras.
Police unions may resist these new changes and could see the bill as an attack against law enforcement.
Members of Congress have walked alongside protesters and given fiery speeches on the need for police reform since the Memorial Day 2020 death of George Floyd. So far, their efforts have fallen short.
Biden, a longtime ally of police, will enter White House pushing for reform Mark Berman, Tom Jackman A Secret Service officer guards the White House on Feb. 7, 2019. (Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post) When he was elected vice president in 2008, Joe Biden called in police officials for meetings during the transition to let them know that he would be their liaison in the Obama administration. “He said, ‘You know what? I told the president I want the police portfolio,’ ” said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington-based group that works with police departments. More than a decade later, Biden won the presidency and his transition team called in police officials for a new round of meetings. This time, the landscape was strikingly different: The nation was shaken by a reckoning over police violence and racial injustice. Biden was arguing for police reform, while his opponent, President Trump, bille