FYI: Nov-L: Common sense legislation (fwd)

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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 23:01:23 -0800
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JUSTICE WATCH - ACTION ALERT
LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST & INTEGRITY ACT of l999 [H.R.2656.IH] 
(Introduced in the House)
FOR COMPLETE TEXT:  http://thomas.loc.gov/home/c106query.html#keyword

Washington D.C., March 15   
Law Enforcement Trust and Integrity Act, a bill designed to curb law
enforcement and police abuses.  The bill was introduced in the House today
by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI).  At a Capitol Hill press conference, along
with many Members of Congress, including Rep. Conyers, Charles Rangel
(D-NY), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Danny Davis (D-IL), Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX)
and Robert Underwood (D-Guam), civil rights organizations including ADC,
NAACP, the ACLU, the Urban League, the National Council of La Raza, and
several police organizations voiced support for the bill.

The bill provides for:
National standards for training, management and oversight of police
officers;
Mandatory data collection on racial, ethnic and gender profiling in law
enforcement;
Protections for due process rights of all those accused of abuses;
New protections from abuses by the Immigration and Naturalization and
Customs Services;
Whistleblower protection for officers who break the "blue code of silence"
covering abuses;

CHECK OUT:  ACTION ALERT  ACLU
TAKE ACTION!  Learn more about this bill and send a FREE fax to your Member
of Congress, urging them to cosponsor this common sense legislation.  Our
action alert and letter to Congress can be found on the ACLU website at:
http://www.aclu.org/action/police106.html

Yesterday, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) introduced legislation designed to curb
outrages like Los Angeles Police Department's "Ramparts" scandal and the
Amadou Diallo shooting in New York.
 
"The Law Enforcement Trust and Integrity Act of 2000" represents a
comprehensive approach toward creating police accountability and building
trust between police departments and their communities.  The bill wouldfor
the first timebring together community groups, police departments and the
Department of Justice to establish national standards for police use of
force.
 
The demand for this legislation has been displayed in news coverage from
coast to coast.  In New York City, Amadou Diallo, an unarmed black man, was
killed in the vestibule of his apartment after police shot him 41 times. In
Los Angeles, investigations into the city's police department revealed a
pattern of arrogance, intimidation and lawlessness.
 
CONTACT CONGRESS MEMBERS
web site:  Legislative Action Center and Laws
http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd/
Issues and Legislation: Law Enforcement Trust & Integrity Act

Write Your Representative web site:  http://www.house.gov/writerep/


Tom Murlowski
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.november.org

Yours, 
J.A. Terranson
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If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they
should give serious consideration towards setting a better example:
Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of
unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in
the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and 
elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire
populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate...
This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States
as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers,
associates, or others.  Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of
those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the
first place...
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