Timothy Birdnow

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Trump Policing Order: Federal Grants Dependent on Use-of-Force Reform, Misconduct Database

That's what we need! a Federal database!

From the article:

The order will establish independent credentialing for police departments in activities including the use of force and de-escalation training as well as "early warning systems that help to identify officers who may require intervention” and "best practices regarding community engagement,” the order reads.

Only those agencies that apply for the credentials will be eligible for discretionary federal grants.

As part of the credentials, departments will have to ban their officers from using chokeholds "except in those situations where the use of deadly force is allowed by law,” the order says.

The attorney general will be responsible for setting standards for which entities could issue such credentials.

The order establishes a national database "concerning instances of excessive use of force related to law enforcement matters, accounting for applicable privacy and due process rights.”

The database should track which officers were fired, decertified, or convicted for on-duty conduct, or had a civil judgment entered against them for "improper use of force,” the order says. It should also include those who resigned or retired "while under active investigation related to the use of force.”

"The Attorney General shall take appropriate steps to ensure that the information in the database consists only of instances in which law enforcement officers were afforded fair process,” the order states.

Only agencies that send their data to the database will be eligible for discretionary federal grants, "as appropriate and consistent with applicable law,” the order says.

This is the end of local policing; now the Feds will control who and how this is done.

It will be a small step from here to a national police force, one of the fondest dreams of the totalitarian left.

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