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 JUSTICE
WATCH - ACTION ALERT
Law enforcement Trust and Integrity Act
of 2000
The Law Enforcement Trust
and Integrity Act is a bill designed to curb law enforcement
and police abuses. The bill was introduced in April in the House
of Representatives by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) who later attended
a Capitol Hill press conference along with other Members of Congress,
including Charles Rangel (D-NY), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Danny
Davis (D-IL), Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) and Robert Underwood
(D-Guam). Civil rights organizations represented in support include
ADC, NAACP, the ACLU, the Urban League, the National Council
of La Raza, and several police organizations.
The bill provides for:
- National standards for training,
management and oversight of police officers;
- Mandatory data collection
on racial, ethnic and gender profiling in law enforcement. Protections
for due process rights of all those accused of abuses;
- New protections from abuses
by the Immigration and Naturalization and Customs Services; Whistleblower
protection for officers who break the blue code of silence covering
abuses.
TAKE ACTION! Learn more about
this bill and send a FREE fax to your Member of Congress urging
them to cosponsor this common sense legislation.
Our action alert and letter
to Congress can be found on the ACLU website at: www.aclu.org/action/police106.html
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