Hakeem is working to make every neighborhood safer by fighting to get illegal guns off our streets and strengthening the relationship between the police and our community.
Work to make every neighborhood safer by getting illegal guns off the streets and strengthening the relationship between police and the community.
Occurrences
Evidence
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The campaign issue page says Jeffries is working to make every neighborhood safer by fighting to get illegal guns off the streets and strengthening the relationship between police and the community. It also says he has pushed universal background checks and advanced policing-reform bills.
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GovInfo shows Jeffries introduced H.R. 7118, the Excessive Use of Force Prevention Act of 2018, to forbid chokeholds by persons covered by 18 U.S.C. 242, and it was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
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GovInfo lists Jeffries as a cosponsor of H.R. 7120, a bill to hold law enforcement accountable for misconduct, improve transparency through data collection, and reform police training and policies. The bill was reported in the House.
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GovInfo shows the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act was engrossed in the House on June 25, 2020, meaning it passed the House and moved to the Senate. The bill's title and text focus on law-enforcement accountability, transparency, and training reform.
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Congress.gov identifies Jeffries as sponsor of H.R.1347, which would make chokeholds and carotid restraints fall within the federal civil-rights force statute. The bill was introduced and referred to subcommittee.
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Congress.gov shows Jeffries introduced H.R.4408, the Eric Garner Excessive Use of Force Prevention Act of 2019, which would define chokeholds as covered punishment under the federal civil-rights statute. The bill was referred to subcommittee.
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Jeffries's official public-safety page says residents should not have to worry about safety in their homes, says police need the trust of the people they serve, and describes his work as continuing preventative measures and transformational public-safety reform.
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Jeffries's criminal-justice page says reform has been one of his primary focuses, identifies racial profiling and police brutality as major problems, and says he is dedicated to working with Congress on transformational criminal-justice reform.
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On June 9, 2026, Jeffries spoke on the House floor against the Republican ICE and CBP reconciliation package, saying it would give Trump $70 billion to brutalize communities and framing the fight as part of Democrats' effort to protect people.
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BSCA created new criminal offenses for unlawfully trafficking in firearms and for straw-purchasing a firearm on behalf of a prohibited person. To date, 525 defendants, in 280 cases, have been charged under these new trafficking and straw purchasing provisions.
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Federal law explicitly forbids voter intimidation and stationing armed federal agents at polling places.
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Creates federal straw purchasing and trafficking criminal offenses, allowing prosecutors to target dangerous illegal gunrunners.
Assessments
Jeffries appears to have materially pursued the promise, especially the police-community trust and accountability side, by introducing the Excessive Use of Force/Eric Garner bills and backing the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. Those actions show sustained legislative effort within his federal office context. But the evidence does not show that his gun-safety priorities or policing reforms were fully enacted, nor that the broader promised outcome of making every neighborhood safer was actually achieved. Because he advanced meaningful but incomplete action on part of the promise without full delivery of the overall result, partial credit fits better than delivered or never.
Jeffries took repeated, concrete legislative action aligned with the promise, especially on police accountability and police-community relations, including sponsoring Eric Garner/excessive-force bills and cosponsoring the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which passed the House but was not enacted. The evidence also indicates support for background checks, but does not show that the broader promised public-safety outcomes of getting illegal guns off the streets and strengthening police-community relationships were fully delivered. Because the promise was framed as working toward these goals, the record supports partial fulfillment rather than full delivery.