There has been zero coverage of that here. The news out of your country is 90% coronavirus, 10% Trump and Biden.
That bill sounds promising but will McConnel and Trump let it exist?
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Possibly. Possibly not. It definitely seems like something worthy of calling one’s congressional representatives over.
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Agree.
Call your reps for me, kids.
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I knew about all of these, but that may be strictly from the Military Times.
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My local Indivisible chapter has been discussing it, but there is not a lot of hope in terms of how this will actually relate to local law enforcement. The use of participating LEO is not super encouraging and honestly point 3 requiring identification seems like it should just just baseline so there isn’t a ton of excitement there.
Overall I feel like calling these policies progressive just shows how low the bar really is.
I will be glad to see this passed, if it does, but it does not feel super progressive or like something worthy of a giant celebration to me.
Maybe I’m wrong about this?
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I hear you - while those addendums are nice, probably the only reason they aren’t being debated is because they’re tied to the military budget which is always bipartisan. (Which I have Opinions about, but that’s a different thread)
If they were being passed in a separate bill, it might be a very different conversation.
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I agree that have these sections included in the NDAA isn’t anything near a giant step forward. It is a step, though.
In my small experience, sweeping policy change is much like how Alabama became a household music name. It took a decades of grow work to lay the framework for “sudden” overnight success.
Identification should be the standard, and now it’s a standard will (touch wood) be codified into federal law, which means the standard can be enforced. It’s the backstop from which the foot will spring.
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I had no idea this was a thing that was happening/being discussed on any level. Neat.
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I agree that these changes will have limited effect, while still good because of foundational/incremental change being an underlying framework, but I’m frustrated to be learning about it here. Most people don’t have a “here,” and aren’t even tuned in to the mainstream sources that most of us here are, where we’re still not hearing about important things like this.
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I wonder from a strategy perspective is the lack of press is intentional. Sometimes you want a big uproar and everyone on your email list to call their representatives, and sometimes you want the bipartisan bill to pass quickly and quietly with your amendments in it.
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Chauvin guilty on all counts:
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Darnella Frazier. She blames herself because she wasn’t able to save him, but she may have saved others in the future with her video of his murder.
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It’s Juneteenth tomorrow. As of today’s bill signing, it’s a federal holiday in the US.
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Relevant episode from Hidden Brain: Changing Behavior, Not Beliefs | Hidden Brain Media
Summary - “The rift between police and Black Americans can feel impossible to bridge. But in his work with police departments across the U.S., Yale psychologist Phillip Atiba Goff has found novel ways to address the problem.”
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