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Now pass and enforce and punish local govtās for noncompliance.
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Congress just passed a similar bill, although apparently without the public reporting requirement, but I canāt imagine the DOJ keeping such statistics a secret from the public. http://www.nationalmemo.com/new-bill-states-report-police-triggered-deaths-attorney-general/
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Cutting and pasting an article from the Hill, adding a introductory sentence, and editing the article down to four paragraphs is authoring content for TPM? You couldāve at least pointed out that since the bill was dropped last Thursday that it will have to be reintroduced in the next session.
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Well, I guess itās a start. . .
Yeah, the start of it being blocked and then tabled by the GOP/Teatrolls and never going anywhere for the next two years because of pressure from police unions, the NRA and letās call them āotherā significant factions in the GOP/Teatroll base that have certain abhorrent views.
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Whatās the point of introducing a bill five minutes before (or is it five minutes after) the end of the Congressional session?
Come back in January, introduce it then, and it will at least have a chance of passing. Introducing it today is just pointless.
Not bad, but it should be for all police involved deaths, not just shootings.
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Introduce it now or after January, its gonna go nowhere fast. Its a dead bill which will never be allowed to be introduced or taken up in the House while the Thugs are in charge. Heās making a statement to his mostly black constituency in Tennessee, for whom he represents. Thatās it.
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Waste of time.
The CDC tried this back in the 90ās and the republicans cut their funding to the penny of what the program cost. Heck, it may even still be on the books.
The GOP will not even entertain this kind of legislation.
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Sad , but true.
The GOP wants to privatize as much as posssibleā¦
Schools, prisons why not cops
I would like to reiterate that something very similar actually ended up in the so-called CROmnibus bill, AKA the budget, I linked to it above. So although Cohenās gesture might have been futile, it looks like most or all of the goal was achieved by other means.
ā¦ but ā¦ but ā¦ but ā¦ such onerous reporting requirements would violate the Second Amendment rights of the police. These brave souls donāt give up their Second Amendment rights when they swear to uphold the Constitution. Next thing you know, youāll have gun-grabbers looking at this data and then trying to take away the God-given pistols of officers who use their weapons just a little too muchā¦
This is a cheap shot. TPM has always mixed original reporting - which we do vast amounts of - with aggregating and picking up nuggets of information from other publications. This is the best way to cover the news in a complex news ecosystem with multiple niches. We donāt whine when they pick our own reports. The piece cites the Hillās report in the first paragraph. Find someone else to pick on. The Hill does not own this news.
I wasnāt criticizing the citing of the story, I was criticizing the fact that it seemed to be lifted practically whole cloth from the Hill piece. The author couldāve included other relevant materials. Takes 2 minutes to go over to THOMAS and find out if the bill has cosponsors, heck, even if they have full language of the bill available yet. I know because I did. Forgive my ignorance but does an author typically attached their name to a story that is āaggregatedā from another source? Not a journalist, just someone who has spent a career in intellectual property public policy and law firm business development practice area. I apologize for expecting more from TPM.
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