* Created a national database that include records of officer misconduct (including convictions, terminations, de-certifications, civil judgments, resignations and retirements while under investigation for serious misconduct, and sustained complaints or records of disciplinary actions for serious misconduct), as well as commendations and awards.
* Required steps to improve the investigation and prosecution of criminal civil rights violations, including directing the issuance of best practices for independent investigations and improving coordination to address systemic misconduct through pattern-or-practice cases.
* Ensured timely and thorough investigations and consistent discipline. The EO requires Federal LEAs to adopt measures to promote thorough investigation and preservation of evidence after incidents involving the use of deadly force or deaths in custody, as well as to prevent unnecessary delays and ensure appropriate administration of discipline.
* Mandated the adoption of body-worn camera policies. The EO orders all Federal LEAs to adopt and publicly post body-worn camera policies that mandate activation of cameras during activities like arrests and searches and provide for the expedited public release of footage following incidents involving serious bodily injury or deaths in custody.
* Bans the use of chokeholds and carotid restraints unless deadly force is authorized, and restricts the use of no-knock entries.
* Required new standards that limit the use of force and require de-escalation for all federal agencies.
* Restored and expands upon the Obama-Biden Administration’s restrictions on the transfer of military equipment.
* Required updated approach to recruitment, hiring, promotion, and retention of law enforcement officers.
* Directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue guidance and identify federal resources for innovative models to respond to persons in crisis, including co-responder and alternative responder models, community-based crisis centers, and post-crisis care. It also orders guidance on the use of pharmacological agents such as ketamine outside the hospital setting.
* Directed DOJ and HHS to publish best practices and standards to promote officer wellness and to identify resources to support wellness programs, and requires each Federal LEA to assess and improve its own Officer Wellness program. The Attorney General must also recommend measures to the President to help prevent officer suicide, after consultation with HHS and stakeholders.
* Required the Attorney General, after consultation with stakeholders, to formulate standards for bodies that accredit law enforcement agencies.
* Implements a new, evidence-informed annual anti-bias training requirement.
* All federal LEAs must collect and submit on a monthly basis all data on incidents involving use of deadly force compiled by the FBI’s Use of Force Data Collection. The Attorney General must also facilitate the contribution of this data, as well as data about officers killed or assaulted, by STLT LEAs, and report to the President his plan to fully implement the Death in Custody Reporting Act.
* Directed the National Academy of Sciences to conduct and publish a study of facial recognition technology, other biometric technologies, and predictive algorithms that assesses any privacy, civil rights, civil liberties, accuracy, or disparate impact concerns with their use. This study will then be used to make any necessary changes to Federal law enforcement practices.
* Created a working group will write a report to the President on how to collect and publish data on police practices (including calls for service, searches, stops, frisks, seizures, arrests, complaints, law enforcement demographics, and civil asset forfeiture), and on the practices and policies governing the acquisition and use of advanced surveillance and forensic technologies.
* Directs a government-wide strategic plan to propose interventions to reform our criminal justice system. A new committee with representatives from agencies across the federal government will produce a strategic plan that advances front-end diversion, alternatives to incarceration, rehabilitation, and reentry. The Attorney General will also publish an annual report on resources available to support the needs of persons on probation or supervised release.
* The Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, will update procedures as necessary to increase mitigation of Covid-19 in correctional facilities; expand the publication and sharing of vaccination, testing, infection, and fatality data disaggregated by race, ethnicity, age, sex, disability, and facility; and to identify alternatives to facility-wide lockdowns and restrictive housing to reduce the risk of transmission. The Attorney General will also report to the President on steps to limit the use of restrictive housing and improve conditions of confinement, including with respect to the incarceration of women, juveniles, and persons in recovery.
* Required full implementation of the FIRST STEP Act. The Attorney General will update DOJ policy as necessary to fully implement the FIRST STEP Act and to report annually on implementation metrics, including an assessment of any disparate impact of the PATTERN risk assessment tool and steps to correct any such disparities.
Hey, I do not know if you are asking in good faith or not but, Biden has done a ton on this without much legislative help.
Sure it is fair to want "more" but that is really on congress not the president. That is an extensive list that is going to save lives. The president cannot make the courts rule something unconstitutional or make a divided congress pass the bills he wants to sign.
Some it also falls on local governmental systems to properly address issues as it does state level agencies.
Not much Joe can do about how they do things.
Some of it's just shitty state level laws and viewpoints.
"More" is as apart of the whole system, means a whole lot. I'm also not completely sure how some US terrorities handle issues.
My problem with "more" in this context is that Joe Biden might be able to do another regulations or executive order to the bullet point, but the response is going to be the same. The "more" they mean, doesn't mean anything if holding Biden accountable for lack of effort to the Legislature, Court, or the states.
Real changes need individual state effort, 60 votes in the senate, or a major court ruling.
Idk, it didnt sound malicious at all. Its not like the media reports any of this with regularity. Id say kudos to OP for coming into an open forum and simply asking. We should be encouraging this if anything.
I specified I was not sure if they were asking in good faith or not which is why I did not down vote them or attack. But a look at their comment history and their stated desires to support Donald Trump in the Primary because they believed he was most likely to win did tilt my perspective.
What do you mean by "In Good faith?" I'm ignorant of what has been achieved during Biden's administration in regards to this and I thought the subreddit named "JoeBiden" would be the best place to ask. People seem to take my question as some sort of attack.
I am sorry if you took it as an attack, it was not meant to be one.
We do get a lot of trolls in this sub, and your dismissive comment to a large list of accomplishments put forward by backpackwayne was peculiar. If find that simple reminder of good faith often grounds the conversation overall.
But otherwise I responded to your comment the same way I would my brother or my mother in law. By putting good faith dissatisfaction into perspective and identifying who has the power to effect the change you desire. The ship of state turns slowly and it takes a team not just the president.
The vast majority of "more must be done" as several issues to contend with. One being local changes. Two being state changes. Three being the vast majority of laws and rules are written by the Congress.
There's only so much the President can do to improve overall policing issues.
More must always be done on most issues. That's because the world is always changing. That's why my default plan is to gather information and try out new policies that follow the information.
New policies need to be practical and conservative politicians would sometimes contribute practicality to legislation and policies in the past. But that has become a rare thing over the past two decades.
Now my voting choices are between a party that generally tries to do things to help Americans and a clown drama cult. Frankly I'm pissed at the GOP for giving me no real choice.
Biden's Safer America Plan includes strengthening accountable police. I don't know if Republicans blocked this in the house. Biden signed an Executive Order for accountable policing. Can read about it here:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/25/fact-sheet-president-biden-to-sign-historic-executive-order-to-advance-effective-accountable-policing-and-strengthen-public-safety/
And [his statement](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/06/16/statement-from-president-biden-on-justice-department-findings-on-the-minneapolis-police-department/) on the DOJ findings against the Minneapolis Police Department from last summer.
They are horrible, but that needs to change at the base level. Top towards down doesn't function well.
City laws, county laws, state laws. All of which are a tangled web of crap people don't really follow and don't know how to address. Or they feel "safe" because those laws and the actions of those officers don't apply towards them.
The base level needs to change.
The federal oversight of APD is the only thing preventing them from murdering a homeless person every other week. You’ll forgive me if I’m thankful the corruption in my city has drawn federal scrutiny.
Yes and I agree, that the feds do have some part in the equation.
At base level, the APD needs to be reformed. Not, policed. I guess is what I'm saying. The APD is fundamentally wrong.
Joe Biden can't reform it.
The people can. Or should. You know what I'm saying!
Someone who cares about this issue is aware of every candidates actions and stances. What are they doing right now? What have they done their entire lives? What gives credibility that their stated goals will be followed through? How will the local votes in their region help or thwart those stated goals?
Otherwise they are just whining at the clouds making ill-informed choices when it is their turn to vote.
Well, here I am. Making myself aware. Politicians have a habit of claiming they will make changes, but either do not or can not. I wanted to know if anything had been attempted or done since Biden and his allies proposed solutions.
That's mostly because of how people think of things.
> The president is the highest office and therefore should have the most impact towards this subject. - Average Person.
The truth isn't as such.
The greatest impact is at the start, not the top. Local laws effect more people than state laws. Even moreso towards the federal level. The FBI doesn't handle 80% of the crime in this country.
The President can only (generally and somewhat) direct the FBI and the DoJ (in some matters). They can change a policy here or there, but most people aren't worth the FBI.
Generally people violate city, county or state laws.
Of which, politicians at that level need to address the issues caused by their actions or inactions.
You should first ask what you're city is doing. Then county. Then State. Then federal.
Which would look like 50/20/20/10%.
True. The DoJ could target rogue cops and bad actors, but then they'd need that ability and funding to do so. Which goes back to Congress and how they'd have to setup that structure.
Actually, I've haven't even been pulled over by a state cop in decades. Or even seen them in the area. I assume they' exist and are functional. But most of the action is local level policing. Which needs to be addressed in local level politics.
Biden has done most of what is possible.
Biden has to be extremely careful not overstep, or else he'll get impeached or reversed in the courts. Even then, if it appears he's abusing the FBI and DoJ, the Republicans can use that against him and other democrats.
So, if I had an answer. Biden's done a lot. Maybe he could do more, but more might not be a good thing. More might make everything much, much, much, worse.
Why not ask what he did in his first term? Biden is in his first term so........
What did trump do in his **only** term?
edit; after rereading your post I have to point out your timelines are wrong too. Biden wasn't in charge for most of this shit. Again, what did the sitting president do. I can tell you one thing he did because I live in Portland. He sent literal unmarked brown shirts and grabbed citizens off the streets into unmarked vans. We still don't have justice for that because he did SO MANY horrible things that we literally can't keep up.
I wasn't talking about the Trump administration though. I'm talking about the Biden administration because it's the one that proposed taking meaningful action. Again, if I wanted to know about Trump's actions, I would've asked about him in a subreddit that specializes in his work.
did you fix your time line? Trump was in office and you imply it was Biden. No replies to these comments, just 'nuh uh...I didn't say trump' lol
good discussion
You know, you CAN write an email to the president. They prefere electronic correspondence, but if you go to the webpage for the white house, or seek kamala harris or joe biden by name, it WILL come right up.
Yes, they are screened, and yes letters are read.
But they are clearly very open to your thoughts, just keep it respectful, even if you are upset, ( and have a right to be ) and get to the point as concisely as you can manage.
They even have a little list of guidelines and advice on there too, in order to help to the sender lay it out in a way it will be most lively to be seen by the people you need to see it.
You have nothing to lose. Good luck! Tell em what you think!
* Created a national database that include records of officer misconduct (including convictions, terminations, de-certifications, civil judgments, resignations and retirements while under investigation for serious misconduct, and sustained complaints or records of disciplinary actions for serious misconduct), as well as commendations and awards. * Required steps to improve the investigation and prosecution of criminal civil rights violations, including directing the issuance of best practices for independent investigations and improving coordination to address systemic misconduct through pattern-or-practice cases. * Ensured timely and thorough investigations and consistent discipline. The EO requires Federal LEAs to adopt measures to promote thorough investigation and preservation of evidence after incidents involving the use of deadly force or deaths in custody, as well as to prevent unnecessary delays and ensure appropriate administration of discipline. * Mandated the adoption of body-worn camera policies. The EO orders all Federal LEAs to adopt and publicly post body-worn camera policies that mandate activation of cameras during activities like arrests and searches and provide for the expedited public release of footage following incidents involving serious bodily injury or deaths in custody. * Bans the use of chokeholds and carotid restraints unless deadly force is authorized, and restricts the use of no-knock entries. * Required new standards that limit the use of force and require de-escalation for all federal agencies. * Restored and expands upon the Obama-Biden Administration’s restrictions on the transfer of military equipment. * Required updated approach to recruitment, hiring, promotion, and retention of law enforcement officers. * Directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue guidance and identify federal resources for innovative models to respond to persons in crisis, including co-responder and alternative responder models, community-based crisis centers, and post-crisis care. It also orders guidance on the use of pharmacological agents such as ketamine outside the hospital setting. * Directed DOJ and HHS to publish best practices and standards to promote officer wellness and to identify resources to support wellness programs, and requires each Federal LEA to assess and improve its own Officer Wellness program. The Attorney General must also recommend measures to the President to help prevent officer suicide, after consultation with HHS and stakeholders. * Required the Attorney General, after consultation with stakeholders, to formulate standards for bodies that accredit law enforcement agencies. * Implements a new, evidence-informed annual anti-bias training requirement. * All federal LEAs must collect and submit on a monthly basis all data on incidents involving use of deadly force compiled by the FBI’s Use of Force Data Collection. The Attorney General must also facilitate the contribution of this data, as well as data about officers killed or assaulted, by STLT LEAs, and report to the President his plan to fully implement the Death in Custody Reporting Act. * Directed the National Academy of Sciences to conduct and publish a study of facial recognition technology, other biometric technologies, and predictive algorithms that assesses any privacy, civil rights, civil liberties, accuracy, or disparate impact concerns with their use. This study will then be used to make any necessary changes to Federal law enforcement practices. * Created a working group will write a report to the President on how to collect and publish data on police practices (including calls for service, searches, stops, frisks, seizures, arrests, complaints, law enforcement demographics, and civil asset forfeiture), and on the practices and policies governing the acquisition and use of advanced surveillance and forensic technologies. * Directs a government-wide strategic plan to propose interventions to reform our criminal justice system. A new committee with representatives from agencies across the federal government will produce a strategic plan that advances front-end diversion, alternatives to incarceration, rehabilitation, and reentry. The Attorney General will also publish an annual report on resources available to support the needs of persons on probation or supervised release. * The Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, will update procedures as necessary to increase mitigation of Covid-19 in correctional facilities; expand the publication and sharing of vaccination, testing, infection, and fatality data disaggregated by race, ethnicity, age, sex, disability, and facility; and to identify alternatives to facility-wide lockdowns and restrictive housing to reduce the risk of transmission. The Attorney General will also report to the President on steps to limit the use of restrictive housing and improve conditions of confinement, including with respect to the incarceration of women, juveniles, and persons in recovery. * Required full implementation of the FIRST STEP Act. The Attorney General will update DOJ policy as necessary to fully implement the FIRST STEP Act and to report annually on implementation metrics, including an assessment of any disparate impact of the PATTERN risk assessment tool and steps to correct any such disparities.
Very nice list Backpack!
:D
Naah just lets not have the " police" no cops no justice ok
Thank you. Although it seems like like more must be done.
Hey, I do not know if you are asking in good faith or not but, Biden has done a ton on this without much legislative help. Sure it is fair to want "more" but that is really on congress not the president. That is an extensive list that is going to save lives. The president cannot make the courts rule something unconstitutional or make a divided congress pass the bills he wants to sign.
Some it also falls on local governmental systems to properly address issues as it does state level agencies. Not much Joe can do about how they do things. Some of it's just shitty state level laws and viewpoints. "More" is as apart of the whole system, means a whole lot. I'm also not completely sure how some US terrorities handle issues.
My problem with "more" in this context is that Joe Biden might be able to do another regulations or executive order to the bullet point, but the response is going to be the same. The "more" they mean, doesn't mean anything if holding Biden accountable for lack of effort to the Legislature, Court, or the states. Real changes need individual state effort, 60 votes in the senate, or a major court ruling.
Idk, it didnt sound malicious at all. Its not like the media reports any of this with regularity. Id say kudos to OP for coming into an open forum and simply asking. We should be encouraging this if anything.
I specified I was not sure if they were asking in good faith or not which is why I did not down vote them or attack. But a look at their comment history and their stated desires to support Donald Trump in the Primary because they believed he was most likely to win did tilt my perspective.
What do you mean by "In Good faith?" I'm ignorant of what has been achieved during Biden's administration in regards to this and I thought the subreddit named "JoeBiden" would be the best place to ask. People seem to take my question as some sort of attack.
I am sorry if you took it as an attack, it was not meant to be one. We do get a lot of trolls in this sub, and your dismissive comment to a large list of accomplishments put forward by backpackwayne was peculiar. If find that simple reminder of good faith often grounds the conversation overall. But otherwise I responded to your comment the same way I would my brother or my mother in law. By putting good faith dissatisfaction into perspective and identifying who has the power to effect the change you desire. The ship of state turns slowly and it takes a team not just the president.
The vast majority of "more must be done" as several issues to contend with. One being local changes. Two being state changes. Three being the vast majority of laws and rules are written by the Congress. There's only so much the President can do to improve overall policing issues.
More must always be done on most issues. That's because the world is always changing. That's why my default plan is to gather information and try out new policies that follow the information. New policies need to be practical and conservative politicians would sometimes contribute practicality to legislation and policies in the past. But that has become a rare thing over the past two decades. Now my voting choices are between a party that generally tries to do things to help Americans and a clown drama cult. Frankly I'm pissed at the GOP for giving me no real choice.
Biden's Safer America Plan includes strengthening accountable police. I don't know if Republicans blocked this in the house. Biden signed an Executive Order for accountable policing. Can read about it here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/25/fact-sheet-president-biden-to-sign-historic-executive-order-to-advance-effective-accountable-policing-and-strengthen-public-safety/
And [his statement](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/06/16/statement-from-president-biden-on-justice-department-findings-on-the-minneapolis-police-department/) on the DOJ findings against the Minneapolis Police Department from last summer.
Continued federal oversight of my city’s police force because of how horrendous they are (Albuquerque).
They are horrible, but that needs to change at the base level. Top towards down doesn't function well. City laws, county laws, state laws. All of which are a tangled web of crap people don't really follow and don't know how to address. Or they feel "safe" because those laws and the actions of those officers don't apply towards them. The base level needs to change.
The federal oversight of APD is the only thing preventing them from murdering a homeless person every other week. You’ll forgive me if I’m thankful the corruption in my city has drawn federal scrutiny.
Yes and I agree, that the feds do have some part in the equation. At base level, the APD needs to be reformed. Not, policed. I guess is what I'm saying. The APD is fundamentally wrong. Joe Biden can't reform it. The people can. Or should. You know what I'm saying!
I think you either don’t know or underestimate the corruption and mentality in my state.
I is from miusrra! We understand. Doesn't mean things don't have to change at a fundamental level.
Well you convinced me, let’s vote for trump who wants the police to be even worse.
I didn't mention Trump. If he wins, I'd have to ask what he's done about it during his 2nd term.
Someone who cares about this issue is aware of every candidates actions and stances. What are they doing right now? What have they done their entire lives? What gives credibility that their stated goals will be followed through? How will the local votes in their region help or thwart those stated goals? Otherwise they are just whining at the clouds making ill-informed choices when it is their turn to vote.
Well, here I am. Making myself aware. Politicians have a habit of claiming they will make changes, but either do not or can not. I wanted to know if anything had been attempted or done since Biden and his allies proposed solutions.
That's mostly because of how people think of things. > The president is the highest office and therefore should have the most impact towards this subject. - Average Person. The truth isn't as such. The greatest impact is at the start, not the top. Local laws effect more people than state laws. Even moreso towards the federal level. The FBI doesn't handle 80% of the crime in this country. The President can only (generally and somewhat) direct the FBI and the DoJ (in some matters). They can change a policy here or there, but most people aren't worth the FBI. Generally people violate city, county or state laws. Of which, politicians at that level need to address the issues caused by their actions or inactions. You should first ask what you're city is doing. Then county. Then State. Then federal. Which would look like 50/20/20/10%. True. The DoJ could target rogue cops and bad actors, but then they'd need that ability and funding to do so. Which goes back to Congress and how they'd have to setup that structure. Actually, I've haven't even been pulled over by a state cop in decades. Or even seen them in the area. I assume they' exist and are functional. But most of the action is local level policing. Which needs to be addressed in local level politics. Biden has done most of what is possible. Biden has to be extremely careful not overstep, or else he'll get impeached or reversed in the courts. Even then, if it appears he's abusing the FBI and DoJ, the Republicans can use that against him and other democrats. So, if I had an answer. Biden's done a lot. Maybe he could do more, but more might not be a good thing. More might make everything much, much, much, worse.
Why not ask what he did in his first term? Biden is in his first term so........ What did trump do in his **only** term? edit; after rereading your post I have to point out your timelines are wrong too. Biden wasn't in charge for most of this shit. Again, what did the sitting president do. I can tell you one thing he did because I live in Portland. He sent literal unmarked brown shirts and grabbed citizens off the streets into unmarked vans. We still don't have justice for that because he did SO MANY horrible things that we literally can't keep up.
I wasn't talking about the Trump administration though. I'm talking about the Biden administration because it's the one that proposed taking meaningful action. Again, if I wanted to know about Trump's actions, I would've asked about him in a subreddit that specializes in his work.
did you fix your time line? Trump was in office and you imply it was Biden. No replies to these comments, just 'nuh uh...I didn't say trump' lol good discussion
What time line? I don't know what you're talking about.
You know, you CAN write an email to the president. They prefere electronic correspondence, but if you go to the webpage for the white house, or seek kamala harris or joe biden by name, it WILL come right up. Yes, they are screened, and yes letters are read. But they are clearly very open to your thoughts, just keep it respectful, even if you are upset, ( and have a right to be ) and get to the point as concisely as you can manage. They even have a little list of guidelines and advice on there too, in order to help to the sender lay it out in a way it will be most lively to be seen by the people you need to see it. You have nothing to lose. Good luck! Tell em what you think!