House Democrats include $597 million for police reform in spending bill
House Democrats included a slew of police reforms, as well as $596.7 million in funding for reform programs, in a proposed spending bill for the 2021 fiscal year, which begins in October.
The 2021 appropriations bill for the departments of Commerce and Justice includes $400 million for initiatives that would boost independent investigations of law enforcement, fund pattern and practice investigations that look for systemic problems in policing, support community-based organizations seeking to improve law enforcement and other initiatives.
It would also provide $50 million to train local law enforcement on certain best practices, $77.5 million to grant programs to boost police-community relations, $25 million for federal investigations into misconduct and $4 million for civilian review boards.
Not all of the money in the bill represents new funding, with some going toward existing Justice Department programs.
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