The Democrats’ big police reform bill, the Justice in Policing Act (JPA), passed the House last March and then languished in the Senate before negotiations over the legislation totally collapsed in September. Congress’ failure to pass the bill doesn’t totally excuse the near total lack of progress on police reform, however. Biden can enact many JPA provisions himself. A leaked draft of an executive order from December showed that Biden was at least strongly considering it, but he never issued the thing. In short, nothing has fundamentally changed.
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