Safe Policing for Safe Communities
Headline: Requires Police Credentialing and Reporting to Improve Community Safety
What it does: Agencies must tie Department of Justice discretionary grants to credentialing and reporting, create a database on excessive force, and develop training and co-responder programs.
- Limits grant funding to police that seek independent credentialing.
- Creates a national database tracking excessive use-of-force incidents.
- Expands training and social-worker co-responder programs for officer encounters.
Summary
This order requires state and local police to seek independent credentialing and ties Department of Justice grant money to those credentialing efforts. It directs the Attorney General to certify credentialing groups, prohibit chokeholds except where deadly force is lawful, and create a national database of excessive force incidents.
The order affects federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies, officers, and the communities they serve, and asks the Health and Human Services Secretary to survey and recommend community-support models within 90 days.
It aims to increase transparency, expand training and social-worker co-responder programs, and rebuild trust between police and communities.
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