Charlie Savage’s Twitter Archive

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Much agreement w/ policing groups on what Biden's coming police reform executive order will do. But there's still a big fight on whether he will try to tighten rules on when cops may use deadly force./1
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The current standard is basically police may shoot when they fear for their lives or those of others. Biden's draft EO would attempt to add that it also has to be necessary/last resort. Civil-rights groups laud; police groups say it's a deal-breaker./2
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As president, Biden can directly impose this higher policy standard on federal law enforcement officers. The draft EO flirts with using conditions on certain federal grants to incentivize/coerce state and local police departments to do likewise./3
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(The police argument is that language like "necessary" and "last resort" would subject police officers to unfair second guessing based on information they did not know in the moment of apparent peril.)/4
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