All The Places Planning Police Reform In The Wake Of George Floyd

On Monday, U.S. House Democrats unveiled a reform bill to combat excessive use of force and racial discrimination and remove barriers to prosecuting police misconduct.

Minneapolis, where Floyd was killed, has proposed the most radical measure, with a veto-proof majority of City Council members on Sunday announcing plans to dismantle the city’s police department and replace it with community-based public safety programs.

The mayors of New York City and Los Angeles have both announced cuts to their police departments.

On Tuesday, the Washington D.C. City Council unanimously passed an emergency police reform bill which requires body-camera footage to be made public more quickly after a shooting, limits when officers can use deadly force and bans the department from buying military equipment.

The New York state legislature on Monday passed a slew of reform bills banning chokeholds, prohibiting racial profiling, and requiring data collection to identify racial bias.

Colorado’s state Senate followed suit on Tuesday, passing a bill to ban chokeholds, limit use of force, require more justification for traffic stops, require officers to intervene when other officers use deadly force and remove qualified immunity, which protects police from being held criminally liable for their actions unless they clearly violate a federal statute.

In Louisville, Kentucky, last week, the city council passed Breonna’s Law, named for slain emergency technician Breonna Taylor, which would require more stringency in warrant applications and restrict the issuance of “no-knock” warrants, which played a major role in Taylor’s death.

Arkansas, Phoenix, Milwaukee, Houston and Gary, Indiana have all formed committees to review police practices and explore possible reform measures.

Plans for reform have also been announced or proposed in Maryland, California, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Texas, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Virginia, Ohio, Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia, Arizona, Utah, South Carolina, New Jersey, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Austin, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Cincinnati, Little Rock, Portland, Oregon and Kansas City, Missouri.