Despite progress made in recent years to change policing practices in California, law enforcement still has the political clout to block bills they don't like.
would have banned police from using canines to arrest or apprehend people, unless there’s a threat of imminent death or serious bodily injury. The proposal still would have allowed cops to use the dogs for search and rescue and to detect narcotics and explosives.Two California Democrats said their bill aims to “end a deeply racialized and harmful practice that has been a mainstay in America’s history of racial bias and violence against Black Americans and people of color.
In an opposition statement included in an analysis of the bill, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said that while some restrictions were warranted, AB 742 “severely restricts an officer’s ability to employ a proven, effective, and less lethal force option that can de-escalate other potentially life-threatening situations.”, according to data from the state Department of Justice.
Lawmakers were not persuaded. The bill failed to garner enough votes to pass, and Assemblymember Corey Jackson pulled it from consideration. “At the end of the day, law enforcement is good at policing everyone but themselves,” Jackson said, adding that he’s received multiple death threats for authoring the bill.Assemblymember Isaac Bryan figured the third anniversary of when a Minneapolis police officer killed Floyd would be a good opportunity to pass a bill to prohibit consent searches by officers.fell several votes short of passage, with more than two dozen Democrats opposing the measure or withholding their vote.
Bryan cited data that show the searches are disproportionately used against Black and brown people, who often don’t feel safe saying no to a consent search even if they are not doing anything illegal.
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