Bill > S3912

This bill aims to hold law enforcement accountable for misconduct, improve transparency through data collection, and reform police training and policies. Key provisions include: - Amending federal laws to make it easier to prosecute law enforcement officers for misconduct, restricting the use of qualified immunity as a defense, and providing grants to states to conduct pattern and practice investigations of law enforcement agencies. - Establishing a National Police Misconduct Registry to track complaints, discipline records, and other data on law enforcement officers, and requiring states to report this information to be eligible for certain federal funding. - Mandating the reporting of use of force data by state and local law enforcement agencies, with potential funding reductions for non-compliance. - Prohibiting racial profiling by law enforcement and establishing programs to eliminate it at the federal, state, and local levels. - Requiring federal law enforcement agencies to maintain policies to eliminate racial profiling, and state/local agencies to have such policies to receive certain federal funds. - Providing grants to law enforcement agencies to support the use of body-worn cameras, establish related policies, and study their impacts. - Creating a new federal crime of "lynching" for conspiracies to violate certain civil rights laws. Overall, the bill aims to increase accountability, transparency, and equity in policing through a combination of legal reforms, data reporting requirements, and grant programs.

Justice

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3912/all-info