Trump and Clinton are both running for presidency in 2016. When coming up the question about police brutality, they have some slightly different ideas. Clinton wants to ban assault guns and prevent people to buy them from stores, and going around to kill innocent people. In the last debate she mentioned how the 2nd Amendment was not an efficient law since it supports people to own guns. Police officers would also risk to get shot by criminals or gangs. So the same should be applied for officers that are not capable of having a gun. African American men are far more likely to be stopped and searched by police, charged with crimes, and sentenced to longer prison terms than the white men found guilty of same offenses. The madness have to stop, Clinton added.
People are crying out for criminal justice reform. Families are being torn apart by excessive incarceration. Young people are being threatened and humiliated by racial profiling. Children are growing up in homes shattered by prison and poverty. They’re trying to tell us. We need to listen.
The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population but almost 25 percent of the total prison population. A significant percentage of the more than 2 million Americans incarcerated today are nonviolent offenders.
-Strengthen bonds of trust between communities and police.
Effective policing and constitutional policing go hand in hand. We can—and must—do both by:
People are crying out for criminal justice reform. Families are being torn apart by excessive incarceration. Young people are being threatened and humiliated by racial profiling. Children are growing up in homes shattered by prison and poverty. They’re trying to tell us. We need to listen.
The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population but almost 25 percent of the total prison population. A significant percentage of the more than 2 million Americans incarcerated today are nonviolent offenders.
-Strengthen bonds of trust between communities and police.
Effective policing and constitutional policing go hand in hand. We can—and must—do both by:
- Bringing law enforcement and communities together to develop national guidelines on the use of force by police officers, making it clear when deadly force is warranted and when it isn’t and emphasizing proven methods for de-escalating situations.
- Acknowledging that implicit bias still exists across society—even in the best police departments—and tackle it together. Hillary will commit $1 billion in her first budget to find and fund the best training programs, support new research, and make this a national policing priority.
- Making new investments to support state-of-the-art law enforcement training programs at every level on issues like use of force, de-escalation, community policing and problem solving, alternatives to incarceration, crisis intervention, and officer safety and wellness.
- Supporting legislation to end racial profiling by federal, state, and local law enforcement officials.
- Strengthening the U.S. Department of Justice’s pattern or practice unit—the unit that monitors civil rights violations—by increasing the department’s resources, working to secure subpoena power, and improving data collection for pattern or practice investigations.
- Doubling funding for the U.S. Department of Justice “Collaborative Reform” program. Across the country, there are police departments deploying creative and effective strategies that we can learn from and build on. Hillary will provide assistance and training to agencies that apply these best practices
- Providing federal matching funds to make body cameras available to every police department in America.
- Promoting oversight and accountability in use of controlled equipment, including by limiting the transfer of military equipment to local law enforcement from the federal government, eliminating the one-year use requirement, and requiring transparency from agencies that purchase equipment using federal funds.
- Collecting and reporting national data to inform policing strategies and provide greater transparency and accountability when it comes to crime, officer-involved shootings, and deaths in custody.
- www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/criminal-justice-reform/