Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Trump Signed An Executive Order On Safe Policing Today

The White House
Executive Order on Safe Policing for Safe Communities


Looking over it as far as I'm concerned it doesn't specifically address anything having to do with actual police practices. For me the most significant line is this one I've underlined.

Sec. 2.
(ii) the State or local law enforcement agency’s use-of-force policies prohibit the use of chokeholds — a physical maneuver that restricts an individual’s ability to breathe for the purposes of incapacitation — except in those situations where the use of deadly force is allowed by law.


In other words the only part of the whole order which could have had any teeth in it would to outright ban the use of the chokeholds. Instead the carefully crafted document makes exceptions for the continued use of them. To me this order is a nothing burger with a heaping helping of word salad since there's nothing specific said about police practices themselves. Take a look at it for yourself and see if you agree.

Here is A LINK TO THE FEDERAL REGISTER listing of all the executive orders going back to Clinton's starting in 1994.

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