Support the Justice in Policing Act of 2020, including requirements for use-of-force reporting, bans on racial and religious profiling and chokeholds, and mandatory body cameras.

Madeleine Dean · Pennsylvania · Democratic

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Occurrences

This is why Madeleine supports the Justice in Policing Act of 2020, which mandates reporting of police use of force, prohibits racial and religious profiling, bans chokeholds, and mandates use of police body cameras

Supports federal policing reform legislation with reporting, anti-profiling, anti-chokehold, and body-camera requirements.

RACIAL EQUITY, POLICE VIOLENCE, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM - Madeleine Dean for Congress
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and the Eric Garner Excessive Use of Force Prevention Act, which makes the use of the police chokehold a civil rights violence and prohibits police tactic that could result in loss of of breath

Supports legislation to ban chokeholds and similar deadly force tactics.

RACIAL EQUITY, POLICE VIOLENCE, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM - Madeleine Dean for Congress
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Madeleine supports expanding successful special veteran and drug courts

Supports expanding specialized courts for veterans and drug cases.

RACIAL EQUITY, POLICE VIOLENCE, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM - Madeleine Dean for Congress
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ending the cash bail system

Supports eliminating cash bail.

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limiting imprisonment for non-violent crimes—especially minor drug convictions

Supports reducing incarceration for non-violent and minor drug offenses.

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and rolling back mandatory minimum sentencing

Supports reducing or reversing mandatory minimum sentences.

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Evidence

Rep. Dean is an original co-sponsor of this transformative legislation introduced by Congressional Black Caucus Chair Karen Bass, Senators Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler. The Justice in Policing Act of 2020: holds police accountable in our courts; improves transparency into policing by collecting better and more accurate data of police misconduct; improves police training and practices; makes lynching a federal crime.

Dean publicly backed and co-sponsored the Justice in Policing Act of 2020, matching the claim’s core elements on reporting/transparency and police accountability.

partial same_term A for effort

Representative Dean signs onto Bold Civil Rights and Police Brutality Legislation
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The bill text for H.R. 7120 is the Justice in Policing Act of 2020, introduced in the 116th Congress. The legislative summary describes it as a bill to hold law enforcement accountable for misconduct in court, improve transparency through data collection, and reform police training and policies.

Official bill record confirms the legislation Dean supported existed in the same term and covered the transparency/reporting and reform components of the claim.

partial same_term

H.R. 7120 (IH) - Justice in Policing Act of 2020
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Section 363 incentivizes banning chokeholds and carotid holds; section 1753 states that body cameras shall not be used to gather intelligence based on protected speech, associations, or religion, or to record unrelated activity, and shall not be equipped with real-time facial recognition technologies.

The legislative text shows the bill included chokehold restrictions and body-camera requirements, supporting the substance of Dean’s public endorsement.

partial same_term

Text - S.3912 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Justice in Policing Act of 2020
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H.R. 1280 was received in the Senate on March 9, 2021. The short title is George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021, and the full title says it would hold law enforcement accountable for misconduct in court, improve transparency through data collection, and reform police training and policies.

Dean’s supported policing package persisted into the next Congress and advanced in the House before being received by the Senate, but this does not show enactment.

unresolved later_term A for effort

H.R. 1280 (RDS) - George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021
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Member activity for Madeleine Dean includes an entry for GEORGE FLOYD JUSTICE IN POLICING ACT OF 2025 and shows she remains an active House member in the 119th Congress.

This shows continued later-term relevance, but not delivery of the original 2020 policy package; the underlying justice-in-policing agenda remains unresolved at the federal level.

unresolved later_term

Madeleine Dean | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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Assessments

partial same_term A for effort

Dean clearly supported the promise by becoming an original co-sponsor of the Justice in Policing Act of 2020, and the bill text included the cited elements such as transparency/data reporting, chokehold restrictions, profiling-related safeguards, and body-camera provisions. However, the evidence shows the package was introduced and later passed the House in a subsequent Congress before stalling in the Senate, with no evidence it was enacted into federal law. Because the claim is to support the act rather than to single-handedly enact it, her co-sponsorship and continued backing amount to meaningful fulfillment of her support pledge, but the underlying policy package itself remains undelivered at the federal level. That supports partial credit rather than delivered.

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