JUSTICE REFORM
POLICY AGENDA
SAVE LIVES
• Amend body attachment statute — • Annual evaluation of all executed
No custody
• Ban no-knock warrants
• Ban racial profiling
• Ban use of chokeholds & neck restraints
• Decriminalization of marijuana —
Include sentencing modification and
MBE/WBE/VBE goals
• Decriminalization of mental illness —
Strike teams for non-violent events and
direct funding to treatment options
• Decriminalize Jim Crow-era/ • Enhanced penalties for shootings
non-violent crimes
• Develop inclusive hate crime law
• Malicious false reporting to a law
enforcement agency — Allow for a civil
action and relief
• Protester protection
• Reduce jail overcrowding — Amend
bail statutes according to Chief Justice
Rush’s recommendations, including
decreasing Level 6 felonies
• Reduction of GPS monitoring — During
pretrial issue, the same credit as being
jailed pending trial
• School Resource Officers — Remove
and replace with social workers
• Study of juvenile criminal justice system
• Study on racism as health crisis
• SWAT — Local police departments
develop internal policies that call for
appropriate restraints on the use of
SWAT or paramilitary deployment
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HOLD ACCOUNTABLE CHANGE CULTURE
• Community policing — Require officers
searches, warrants, arrests, use of to live in the city of employment and
force and lethal use of force incidents assign to those communities; receive
to determine bias preference in hiring
• Automatic external investigation • Confidential whistleblower complaint
— Shooting of unarmed/retreating process for officers
civilians • Hiring law enforcement officers —
• Civil forfeiture — Allow portions of Mental health testing, expand national
funds obtained to be redirected to background checks utilizing the
communities for neighborhood devel- National Decertification Index, and
opment/redevelopment review of social media accounts
• Issue of summons to appear vs. arrest
involving officers — investigation by • Licensing/certification program for law
State Police enforcement officers
• Independent liability insurance — • Mental health reviews for all law
Requirement of all law enforcement enforcement officers semi-annually
agencies • Officer training — Review and update
• Law enforcement officers held annually, perform throughout year and
accountable for not appearing in make more interactive, and expand
drug search cases training on implicit bias, dispute
• Preamble for criminal code — criminal resolution, de-escalation methods and
justice system to be administered for sexual orientation.
the purpose of restoration to society
and rehabilitation IMPROVE TRANSPARENCY
• Fraternal Order of Police contracts —
EMPOWER COMMUNITIES Public record on Indiana Transparency
• Establish a statewide youth justice Portal and require public hearing for
advisory group renewal
• Increase work with community • Law enforcement lawsuits — Attorney
groups — access federal public safety General to collect data on offenses and
innovation grants funds spent to settle lawsuits
• Independent civilian review boards • Monitor law enforcement officers with
— Disciplinary authority, diverse a history of complaints/violations
composition and increased training • Publicly report lethal force involving
• Statewide citizen review board law enforcement
— Review cases of police misconduct • State audits on public safety funds
and use of fatal excessive force • Statewide public database — Citizen
complaints against law enforcement
officers, and list of disciplined and
terminated officers
• Statewide use of and funding for body
and dashboard cameras
• Use of force continuum data collection
— Include use of force incidents, type
of force used and the demographics of
officers and civilians involved