This progressive police reform bill is pretty popular

[DonViejo]

A new Vox poll shows a majority of Americans are open to the Breathe Act’s ambitious reforms.

By Li [email protected] Jun 21, 2021, 8:30am EDT

As lawmakers try to find a bipartisan compromise on police reform, new polling data reveals that a more progressive approach has fairly strong support as well.

Per a Vox/Data for Progress survey, the Breathe Act, legislation that would implement a more sweeping overhaul of policing that has been championed by activists including the Movement for Black Lives, also has 51 percent likely voter backing. The much less ambitious George Floyd Justice in Policing Act has strong support as well, with an even higher 66 percent in backing.

And yet, neither is likely to make it into law. Both bills are more expansive than what lawmakers are currently negotiating, and face roadblocks when it comes to the Senate. While Democrats made the Justice in Policing Act their starting point in negotiations, it doesn’t have the votes to get through the upper chamber and neither would the Breathe Act.

Because of the Senate’s current 50-50 split, the existence of the legislative filibuster, and Democrats’ own internal divisions on police reform, they will have to compromise with Republicans to advance a bill, suggesting that whatever could pass will be more limited than the Justice in Policing Act.

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https://www.vox.com/2021/6/21/22535672/breathe-act-progressive-police-reform-bill

[-misanthroptimist]

1. Any cop who thinks of the public as the enemy

...should be fired.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. The act with George Floyd's name on it is largely reactive -- boosting consequences for cop

violence, rather than reducing the causes of it. The things it reforms are things that happen after cops have already killed someone. The Breathe Act goes farther but it's true, it would have to change a lot to keep moving through the process. Oh well, I guess people will just have to keep dying!!1!1!!!1!11!!