The Pennsylvania Legislature, both House and Senate, passed two bills related to police reform on UNANIMOUS VOTES. You couldn’t get a bill supporting apple pie and motherhood through the Pennsylvania legislature on a unanimous vote.
Both bills are meaningful. One requires that a police department that is hiring must conduct background checks on job applicants that require an applicant’s former department to disclose information on that applicant’s employment history, including complaints and reasons the applicant left the job. Amazingly, this was never a requirement in the past.
The second bill says that officers must be trained every other year in interactions with people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds and receive annual training on de-escalation techniques.
I am amazed and delighted. If you wonder if all those demonstrations had an effect, I think you would have to admit that they did, at least in Pennsylvania.
This also means that even our Representative, Doyle Heffley, voted for these bills. Will wonders ever cease.?
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