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Senate Republicans reveal police reform bill that breaks with Democrats on key issues

Senate Republicans on Wednesday unveiled their bill to reform the police, the latest effort by lawmakers to overhaul U.S. law enforcement in the face of unrelenting pressure from activists in the wake of George Floyd’s death.

Here’s some of what the Republicans’ bill would do:

  • Incentivize law enforcement agencies to ban the use of chokeholds by tying funding to whether departments have prohibited the practice “except when deadly force is authorized”;
  • Ramp up data collection efforts to track when an officer’s use of force results in death or serious harm;
  • Provide federal money for additional training on alternatives to the use of force;

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