You can’t name a single thing in Tim Scott’s bill that would’ve made a measurable difference in police violence rates. Not a thing.
https://twitter.com/dthekingpin/status/1481997467281510410
Tim Scott’s bill restricts but doesn’t ban chokeholds, which most police agencies already do and that wouldn’t even prevent the fewer than 1% of killings by police that are due to chokeholds.
His bill encourages better data collection but the federal government has already proven inept and unwilling to use their existing authority to collect or share useful data on police violence. Moreover, that data is being collected anyway (see: policescorecard.org)
The rest of the bill is about body cams capturing videos that probably will never see the light of day and will end up being used against communities, trainings that aren’t shown to make a difference, and “incentives” for states to do things that won’t change the outcomes. Waste.
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