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PSA: Fairfax Virginia Police Reform
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This is Now The Law
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Date: April 10, 2021 04:12PM
RICHMOND, Va., (WSET) -- Governor Ralph Northam announced on Oct. 28 he has signed new laws that will significantly advance police and criminal justice reform in Virginia.
Governor Northam has been working closely with legislators on the measures since early summer, when the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor led to national reckoning on racial bias in policing.
Gov. Northam took action on the following bills that reform policing:
Governor Northam signed Senate Bill 5030, sponsored by Senator Locke, omnibus police reform legislation, which incorporates a number of critical reform measures passed by the House of Delegates.
House Bill 5099, sponsored by Delegate Aird, prohibits law enforcement officers from seeking or executing a no-knock search warrant. With Governor Northam’s signature, Virginia becomes the third state in the nation to ban no-knock warrants.
House Bill 5049, sponsored by Delegate Helmer, reduces the militarization of police by prohibiting law enforcement from obtaining or using specified equipment, including grenades, weaponized aircraft, and high caliber firearms. Governor Northam amended this bill to clarify that law enforcement agencies can seek a waiver to use restricted equipment for search and rescue missions.
House Bill 5109, sponsored by Delegate Hope, creates statewide minimum training standards for law enforcement officers, including training on awareness of racism, the potential for biased profiling, and de-escalation techniques. Governor Northam made technical amendments to this bill to align it with Senate Bill 5030.
House Bill 5104, sponsored by Delegate Price, mandates law enforcement agencies and jails request the prior employment and disciplinary history of new hires.
House Bill 5108, sponsored by Delegate Guzman, expands and diversifies the Criminal Justice Services Board, ensuring that the perspectives of social justice leaders, people of color, and mental health providers are represented in the state’s criminal justice policymaking.
House Bill 5051, sponsored by Delegate Simon, strengthens the process by which law enforcement officers can be decertified and allows the Criminal Justice Services Board to initiate decertification proceedings.
House Bill 5069, sponsored by Delegate Carroll Foy, limits the circumstances in which law enforcement officers can use neck restraints.
House Bill 5029, sponsored by Delegate McQuinn, requires law enforcement officers intervene when they witness another officer engaging or attempting to engage in the use of excessive force.
House Bill 5045, sponsored by Delegate Delaney, makes it a Class 6 felony for law enforcement officers to “carnally know” someone they have arrested or detained, an inmate, parolee, probationer, pretrial defendant, or post trial offender, if the officer is in a position of authority over such individual.
Governor Northam signed House Bill 5055 and Senate Bill 5035, sponsored by Leader Herring and Senator Hashmi, respectively, which empower localities to create civilian law enforcement review boards. These new laws also permit civilian review boards the authority to issue subpoenas and make binding disciplinary decisions.
Governor Northam signed Senate Bill 5014, sponsored by Senator Edwards, which mandates the creation of minimum crisis intervention training standards and requires law enforcement officers complete crisis intervention training.
Governor Northam also took action on the following bills that make Virginia's criminal justice system more equitable:
Governor Northam signed Senate Bill 5018, sponsored by Senator Bell, which allows individuals serving a sentence for certain felony offenses who are terminally ill to petition the Parole Board for conditional release.
Governor Northam amended House Bill 5148 and Senate Bill 5034, sponsored by Delegate Scott and Senator Boysko, respectively, which allow for increased earned sentencing credits. The Governor proposed a six-month delay to give the Department of Corrections sufficient time to implement this program.
source: https://wset.com/news/local/gov-northam-signs-new-laws-to-reform-policing-in-virginia
Governor Northam has been working closely with legislators on the measures since early summer, when the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor led to national reckoning on racial bias in policing.
Gov. Northam took action on the following bills that reform policing:
Governor Northam signed Senate Bill 5030, sponsored by Senator Locke, omnibus police reform legislation, which incorporates a number of critical reform measures passed by the House of Delegates.
House Bill 5099, sponsored by Delegate Aird, prohibits law enforcement officers from seeking or executing a no-knock search warrant. With Governor Northam’s signature, Virginia becomes the third state in the nation to ban no-knock warrants.
House Bill 5049, sponsored by Delegate Helmer, reduces the militarization of police by prohibiting law enforcement from obtaining or using specified equipment, including grenades, weaponized aircraft, and high caliber firearms. Governor Northam amended this bill to clarify that law enforcement agencies can seek a waiver to use restricted equipment for search and rescue missions.
House Bill 5109, sponsored by Delegate Hope, creates statewide minimum training standards for law enforcement officers, including training on awareness of racism, the potential for biased profiling, and de-escalation techniques. Governor Northam made technical amendments to this bill to align it with Senate Bill 5030.
House Bill 5104, sponsored by Delegate Price, mandates law enforcement agencies and jails request the prior employment and disciplinary history of new hires.
House Bill 5108, sponsored by Delegate Guzman, expands and diversifies the Criminal Justice Services Board, ensuring that the perspectives of social justice leaders, people of color, and mental health providers are represented in the state’s criminal justice policymaking.
House Bill 5051, sponsored by Delegate Simon, strengthens the process by which law enforcement officers can be decertified and allows the Criminal Justice Services Board to initiate decertification proceedings.
House Bill 5069, sponsored by Delegate Carroll Foy, limits the circumstances in which law enforcement officers can use neck restraints.
House Bill 5029, sponsored by Delegate McQuinn, requires law enforcement officers intervene when they witness another officer engaging or attempting to engage in the use of excessive force.
House Bill 5045, sponsored by Delegate Delaney, makes it a Class 6 felony for law enforcement officers to “carnally know” someone they have arrested or detained, an inmate, parolee, probationer, pretrial defendant, or post trial offender, if the officer is in a position of authority over such individual.
Governor Northam signed House Bill 5055 and Senate Bill 5035, sponsored by Leader Herring and Senator Hashmi, respectively, which empower localities to create civilian law enforcement review boards. These new laws also permit civilian review boards the authority to issue subpoenas and make binding disciplinary decisions.
Governor Northam signed Senate Bill 5014, sponsored by Senator Edwards, which mandates the creation of minimum crisis intervention training standards and requires law enforcement officers complete crisis intervention training.
Governor Northam also took action on the following bills that make Virginia's criminal justice system more equitable:
Governor Northam signed Senate Bill 5018, sponsored by Senator Bell, which allows individuals serving a sentence for certain felony offenses who are terminally ill to petition the Parole Board for conditional release.
Governor Northam amended House Bill 5148 and Senate Bill 5034, sponsored by Delegate Scott and Senator Boysko, respectively, which allow for increased earned sentencing credits. The Governor proposed a six-month delay to give the Department of Corrections sufficient time to implement this program.
source: https://wset.com/news/local/gov-northam-signs-new-laws-to-reform-policing-in-virginia
Re: PSA: Fairfax Virginia Police Reform
Posted by:
t7y6d
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Date: April 10, 2021 04:54PM
^^^^^^ Word diarrhea
Re: PSA: Fairfax Virginia Police Reform
Posted by:
The Three Crappy Ones Ruined It
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Date: April 10, 2021 08:39PM
Democrat can not resist pandering to race then turning around from out the other side of their face creating racist policies while coddling criminals
The GOP would have done a much better job of all of this , its a dammed shame
1.>Governor Northam amended House Bill 5148 and Senate Bill 5034, sponsored by Delegate Scott and Senator Boysko, respectively, which allow for increased earned sentencing credits. The Governor proposed a six-month delay to give the Department of Corrections sufficient time to implement this program.
Coddling criminals a Democrat core value
2.>House Bill 5108, sponsored by Delegate Guzman, expands and diversifies the Criminal Justice Services Board, ensuring that the perspectives of social justice leaders, people of color, and mental health providers are represented in the state’s criminal justice policymaking.
Unnecessary pandering to race is another Democrat core value
3.>House Bill 5109, sponsored by Delegate Hope, creates statewide minimum training standards for law enforcement officers, including training on awareness of racism, the potential for biased profiling, and de-escalation techniques. Governor Northam made technical amendments to this bill to align it with Senate Bill 5030.
Pandering with non racial profiling of certain minorities allowed but not a word about profiling of whites allowed is another racist core value of Democrats
The GOP would have done a much better job of all of this , its a dammed shame
1.>Governor Northam amended House Bill 5148 and Senate Bill 5034, sponsored by Delegate Scott and Senator Boysko, respectively, which allow for increased earned sentencing credits. The Governor proposed a six-month delay to give the Department of Corrections sufficient time to implement this program.
Coddling criminals a Democrat core value
2.>House Bill 5108, sponsored by Delegate Guzman, expands and diversifies the Criminal Justice Services Board, ensuring that the perspectives of social justice leaders, people of color, and mental health providers are represented in the state’s criminal justice policymaking.
Unnecessary pandering to race is another Democrat core value
3.>House Bill 5109, sponsored by Delegate Hope, creates statewide minimum training standards for law enforcement officers, including training on awareness of racism, the potential for biased profiling, and de-escalation techniques. Governor Northam made technical amendments to this bill to align it with Senate Bill 5030.
Pandering with non racial profiling of certain minorities allowed but not a word about profiling of whites allowed is another racist core value of Democrats
Re: PSA: Fairfax Virginia Police Reform
Posted by:
Sherry duppycop
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Date: April 11, 2021 12:47PM
i.e. Stop arresting joggers.
Re: PSA: Fairfax Virginia Police Reform
Posted by:
sameoldsameoldfromgop
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Date: April 11, 2021 12:56PM
The Three Crappy Ones Ruined It Wrote:
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>
> The GOP would have done a much better job of all
> of this , its a dammed shame
The GOP had plenty of time to do something about it. They instead chose to pander to their law and order base who would be happy to see persons of color and poor people locked up for years for jaywalking.
> 1.>Governor Northam amended House Bill 5148 and
> Senate Bill 5034, sponsored by Delegate Scott and
> Senator Boysko, respectively, which allow for
> increased earned sentencing credits. The Governor
> proposed a six-month delay to give the Department
> of Corrections sufficient time to implement this
> program.
>
> Coddling criminals a Democrat core value
You want to spend upwards of $50,000 per criminal per year from your money to keep people locked up, then be my guest. Just don't be using my tax dollars for it. I would prefer that we look at it from a cost-benefit approach. There would be more to be gained by giving these criminals severely reduced sentences coupled with social services to deal with drug or mental health related issues. Plus it could be done at a much lower financial cost. Save really long term incarceration for those who are the worst of the worst.
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>
> The GOP would have done a much better job of all
> of this , its a dammed shame
The GOP had plenty of time to do something about it. They instead chose to pander to their law and order base who would be happy to see persons of color and poor people locked up for years for jaywalking.
> 1.>Governor Northam amended House Bill 5148 and
> Senate Bill 5034, sponsored by Delegate Scott and
> Senator Boysko, respectively, which allow for
> increased earned sentencing credits. The Governor
> proposed a six-month delay to give the Department
> of Corrections sufficient time to implement this
> program.
>
> Coddling criminals a Democrat core value
You want to spend upwards of $50,000 per criminal per year from your money to keep people locked up, then be my guest. Just don't be using my tax dollars for it. I would prefer that we look at it from a cost-benefit approach. There would be more to be gained by giving these criminals severely reduced sentences coupled with social services to deal with drug or mental health related issues. Plus it could be done at a much lower financial cost. Save really long term incarceration for those who are the worst of the worst.
Re: PSA: Fairfax Virginia Police Reform
Posted by:
Depend On What They Do
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Date: April 11, 2021 01:10PM
Not as a blanket policy because some one is a certain race that committed the crimes
To be in prison there's huge difference between a woman or man who wrote a bad check due to financial hardship and a rapist or strong armed /armed robber
WTF that's why there are prisons to keep these criminals off the streets , as far as weed charges those people did not just have couple oz on them they were pushers, if they did have minor busts that added up to three strikes then they should be let out now its going to be legal in July with a 25 dollar slap for over a oz to a pound. If you want more then that carefully weighed pound you better not get caught , if you do its your own fault and you might do time
Your the real communist racist here pushing this type of blatant racist lie
>They instead chose to pander to their law and order base who would be happy to see persons of color and poor people locked up for years for jaywalking.
To be in prison there's huge difference between a woman or man who wrote a bad check due to financial hardship and a rapist or strong armed /armed robber
WTF that's why there are prisons to keep these criminals off the streets , as far as weed charges those people did not just have couple oz on them they were pushers, if they did have minor busts that added up to three strikes then they should be let out now its going to be legal in July with a 25 dollar slap for over a oz to a pound. If you want more then that carefully weighed pound you better not get caught , if you do its your own fault and you might do time
Your the real communist racist here pushing this type of blatant racist lie
>They instead chose to pander to their law and order base who would be happy to see persons of color and poor people locked up for years for jaywalking.