One step towards eradicating police killings is to make the law clear that police are authorized to use deadly force only in narrow situations, rather than giving police wide latitude to shoot, beat, Tase, or otherwise injure or kill people.
Every change proposed in this bill weakens the already imperfect compromise standard created in the July 2020 police accountability bill. The millions of people in the streets across the U.S. last summer were not there for incremental changes to police violence – they were there to bring about lasting change and an end to police killings. This bill will not do that.
