Appearing remotely, he told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he views the law he has proposed every year since 2019 as a "tool in the toolbox which I don't anticipate would be used very often." "It's just critically important for us for both purposes of transparency and for building public confidence when we conduct particularly sensitive investigations,'' he said. "For example, we're seeing across the country instances where members of law enforcement are involved with the public in ways that lead to very, very bad outcomes. ... The responsibility may or may not lie with the police officers. "In some instances it does, and [in] some instances it doesn't,'' Neronha said.