Police keep killing Black people. Civilian watchdogs need more authority to make it stop.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : In his State of the Union address Feb. 7, President Joe Biden dedicated about five minutes to discussing law enforcement.
54% : Give law enforcement the real training they need.
53% : The modern era of big police reforms began in 1967 with President Lyndon Johnson's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice.
48% : Another necessary way to hold law enforcement to higher standards is to overhaul the oversight system across America.
42% : According to a report by the Institute for Criminal Justice Training Reform, the United States has among the lowest police training requirements compared with more than 100 countries.

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