当国会的共和党人和民主党人提出他们的警务改革提案时，总统唐纳德·特朗普据奥巴马政府的高级官员称，奥巴马政府预计将于周二签署一项行政命令，旨在激励全国各地的警察机构在使用武力方面采取最佳做法，分享关于有不当行为的官员的信息，并在社会工作者的帮助下回应非暴力呼吁。
预计这一行政行动将不会像全国各地的许多抗议者所要求的那样，推动对某些行为的彻底禁止，比如禁止令和禁售令，或者呼吁对警察的角色进行更广泛的重新定位。人们也不指望它能解决警察在执行任务时所受到的独特的法律保护。
据一名高级政府官员称，该命令将与警察代表和被警察杀害的人的家属一起公布，将优先向那些通过尚未确定的“认证和认证”程序的警察机构提供联邦拨款，该程序旨在培训警察采用最佳做法来降低升级，最大限度地减少使用chokeholds和其他类似做法。
政府高级官员称，这还将鼓励机构在官员回应涉及精神健康、无家可归和吸毒等问题的非暴力呼吁时，让社会工作者参与进来，还将创建一个“数据库”，机构将在其中分享有不当行为的官员的信息。
一名官员说，政府不打算从警察机构拿走钱，也不打算“做任何看起来像是我们在试图瓦解”警察的事情。
官员们不清楚种族公正问题将如何纳入该命令，如果有的话，并表示这是警方所乐于接受的。
一名官员表示:“我相信，这项行政命令将以非常非常积极的方式得到所有主要联邦执法团体的支持。”。
南卡罗来纳州共和党参议员蒂姆·斯科特是参议院唯一一位一直在起草参议院共和党改革提案的非裔美国共和党人，周日在全国广播公司的“会见媒体”节目中说该命令将涉及创建“警察不当行为国家数据库”,并解决“共同应对者”与执法部门合作应对精神健康和成瘾相关问题的需求。
由总统女婿领导的白宫美国创新办公室副主任贾隆·史密斯贾里德·库什纳，还强调了在采访周一早上福克斯新闻。
“我们要做的是签署一项行政命令，将社区和警察团结在一起。他说:“再一次，投资于像共同应对者这样的项目，这样可以让警察完成他们的工作，但也可以引入社会工作者和专家来处理精神健康问题，如吸毒、酗酒或其他问题，如无家可归。
2020年6月8日，在华盛顿白宫国家餐厅，唐纳德·特朗普总统在与执法官员的圆桌讨论会上发言。
特朗普上周表示，该命令将“鼓励全国各地的警察部门达到最新的使用武力的专业标准，包括降级策略。”
特朗普周四在达拉斯一所教堂与信仰和社区领袖举行的圆桌会议上表示:“我们将鼓励试点项目，允许社会工作者加入某些执法官员的行列，让他们一起工作。”。
他当时没有提供其他细节，但保证“我们会照顾好我们的警察”
“我们将确保我们的警察训练有素——训练有素——他们拥有最好的装备，”他说。
周一，特朗普为国家警察进行辩护，称国家警察系统中“大部分都是伟大的人”，“我们会做得更好，甚至更好”。我们将努力加快速度。”
2020年6月8日，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在华盛顿白宫与执法部门举行的圆桌讨论会上听取美国警察兄弟会主席帕特里克·尤斯的发言。
这位官员说，斯科特提到的细节——一个“关于警察不当行为的国家数据库”和使用“协同反应者”——是正在考虑的想法之一。
“有几个原则已经讨论过了，”特朗普的高级顾问凯利安·康威说。“很明显，总统一直在倾听全国各地不同人群的声音。”
当白宫继续谴责要求“解散警察”的呼声时，史密斯指出新泽西州卡姆登市的例子是有效警察的一个例子。在该市，警察部门从下至上进行了有效的改革。
史密斯说:“有更好的方法来维持治安，我们有很好的例子，你可以把新泽西州的卡姆登作为其中之一，我们把这些例子看作是把警察和社区团结在一起的方法，这将成为总统和国家的一个重要标志。”。
在立法方面，斯科特表示，他的立法提案旨在改善警察培训和战术，但他表示，“合格豁免”(一种保护执法人员免受工作中行为责任的法律原则)将不会成为现实。
“总统发出的信号是，合格豁免已经取消。他们认为这是我们这边的毒丸，”斯科特在哥伦比亚广播公司新闻节目《面向全国》中说道
斯科特表示，他将对官员的“去认证”持开放态度，以此作为取消合格豁免权的可能替代方案，但他强调，需要从立法角度找到一条可行的前进道路。
“我们必须找到一条途径，帮助我们减少官员中的不当行为。但与此同时，我们知道立法中的任何毒丸都意味着我们一事无成。这发出了错误的信号，也许是美国目前最糟糕的信号。我认为我们将会有一个可以协商的立法，它将会把我们带到一个地方，在这个地方，一些东西变成了法律，实际上产生了影响。这应该是我们的目标，”斯科特说。
国会民主党人正在推进上周公布的一项提案，该提案呼吁禁止封锁，提出使用武力的新标准，并寻求削减限定豁免权。
Trump expected to sign order encourage
As Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill put forward their proposals on policing reforms, PresidentDonald Trumpwas expected on Tuesday to sign an executive order aimed at incentivizing police agencies across the country to adopt best practices on use of force, share information about officers who engage in misconduct and respond to nonviolent calls with the help of social workers, according to senior officials in his administration.
The executive action was expected to stop short of pushing for outright bans on certain behavior -- like chokeholds and no-knock warrants -- or call for a broader reimagining of the role of police, as many protesters across the country have demanded. It was also not expected to address the unique legal protections police officers have while doing their job.
Set to be unveiled alongside representatives of police officers and the families of people killed by police, the order would prioritize federal grants for police agencies that go through a yet-to-be-defined "credentialing and certification" process aimed at training officers to adopt best practices for de-escalation, minimizing the use of chokeholds and other similar practices, according to a senior administration official.
It also would encourage agencies to bring social workers along when officers respond to nonviolent calls that involve issues like mental health, homelessness and drug addiction, and it would create a "database" in which agencies would share information about officers who have engaged in misconduct, the senior administration officials said.
The administration did not plan to take money away from police agencies or "do anything that would seem like we're trying to defund" police, one official said.
The officials were unclear on how racial justice issues would factor into the order, if at all, and described it as palatable to police.
"I believe this executive order will have the support of all the major federal law enforcement groups in a very, very positive way," one official said.
South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott, the Senate's only African American Republican who has been crafting the Senate GOP's proposal for reforms,said Sunday on NBC's "Meet The Press"that the order would involve creating "a national database on police misconduct" and address the need for "co-responders" to work alongside law enforcement in responding to mental health and addiction related issues.
Ja'Ron Smith, the deputy director of the White House Office of American Innovation, led by the president's son-in-lawJared Kushner, also emphasized the importance of co-responders in aninterviewwith Fox News Monday morning.
"What we're looking to do is sign an executive order that will be good glue to bring community and police together. Again, invest in things like co-responders that would allow for police to do their job but bring in social workers and experts that deal with mental health and issues such as drug addiction, or alcohol addiction, or other issues like homelessness," he said.
President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion with law enforcement officials, June 8, 2020, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington.
Trump said last week that the order would "encourage police departments nationwide to meet the most current professional standards for the use of force, including tactics for de-escalation."
"We'll encourage pilot programs that allow social workers to join certain law enforcement officers so that they work together," Trump said Thursday during a roundtable with faith and community leaders at a church in Dallas.
He provided no other details at the time, but pledged that "we'll take care of our police."
"We're going to make sure that our police are well trained -- perfectly trained -- they have the best equipment," he said.
On Monday, Trump defended the nation's police, saying there were "mostly great people" in the nation's policing system and that "we will do better, even better. We will try to do it fast."
President Donald Trump listens to Fraternal Order of Police National President Patrick Yoes during a roundtable discussion with law enforcement at the White House in Washington, June 8, 2020.
The official said the details Scott had mentioned -- a "national database on police misconduct" and the use of "co-responders" -- were among the ideas being considered.
"There are several principles that have been discussed," senior Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said. "Obviously, the president's been listening to many different people across the aisle and across the country."
While the White House continues to condemn calls to "defund the police," Smith pointed to the example of Camden, New Jersey -- a city where the police department was effectively overhauled from the bottom up -- as an example of effective police.
"There's a better way to do policing and we have great examples, you can look at Camden, New Jersey, as one of them and we're looking at those examples as ways to bring the police and communities together and that's going to be a strong mark for the president and for the country," Smith said.
On the legislative front, Scott said his legislative proposal will aim to improve police training and tactics but said that "qualified immunity" -- a legal doctrine that shields law enforcement from liability for actions taken on the job -- would be a non-starter.
"The president sent the signal that qualified immunity is off the table. They see that as a poison pill on our side," Scottsaid on CBS News' "Face The Nation."
Scott said he would be open to the "decertification" of officers as a possible alternative to removing qualified immunity but emphasized the need to find an achievable path forward from a legislative perspective.
"We're going to have to find a path that helps us reduce misconduct within the officers. But at the same time, we know that any poison pill in legislation means we get nothing done. That sends the wrong signal, perhaps the worst signal right now in America. I think we're going to have legislation that can be negotiated that gets us to the place where something becomes law that actually makes a difference. That's got to be our goal," Scott said.
Congressional Democrats are moving forward with a proposal unveiled last week that calls for a ban chokeholds, move to create new standards for using force, and looks to curtail qualified immunity.
