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As New Police Reform Laws Sweep Across the U.S., Some Ask: Are They Enough? States have passed over 140 police oversight bills since the killing of George Floyd, increasing accountability and overhauling rules on the use of force. But the calls for change continue. A protest last week after the death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was killed by the police in Brooklyn Center, Minn.Credit...Victor J. Blue for The New York Times April 18, 2021, 12:24 p.m. ET In February, Illinois enacted a law that rewrote many of the state’s rules of policing, and mandated that officers wear bo...

Activists Question Whether Police Reform Bills Are Enough Steve Eder, Michael H. Keller and Blacki Migliozzi © Victor J. Blue for The New York Times A memorial to Mr. Wright at the location where he was shot by a Brooklyn Center police officer. In February, Illinois enacted a law that rewrote many of the state’s rules of policing, and mandated that officers wear body cameras. In March, New York City moved to make it easier for citizens to sue officers. This month, the Maryland legislature — which decades ago became the first to adopt a Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill o...

California bills would take badges from misbehaving officers DON THOMPSON, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3FILE - In this June 1, 2020, file photo, a protester raises his arm shortly before being arrested for violating a curfew in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles during demonstrations over the death of George Floyd. California would start licensing law enforcement officers, create a way to end their careers for misbehavior including racial bias, and make it easier to sue them for monetary damages under an expanded version of legislation that died at the end of last y...

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Kim Barker, Michael H Keller and Steve Eder Published: 23 Dec 2020 03:37 PM BdST Updated: 23 Dec 2020 03:37 PM BdST A Black Lives Matter demonstration in Portland, Ore, July 30, 2020, during the months of protests following the death of George Floyd. The New York Times It took Portland, Oregon, almost $1 million in legal fees, efforts by two mayors and a police chief, and years of battle with the police union to defend the firing of Officer Ron Frashour — only to have to bring him back. Today, the veteran white officer, who shot an unarmed Black man in the back a decade ago, is still on t...