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Many of Biden’s Goals on Police Reform Are Still Incomplete [1]

['Zolan Kanno-Youngs', 'Luke Broadwater']

Date: 2023-02-08

WASHINGTON — One year after President Biden used the State of the Union address to celebrate billions in federal funds for police departments, the president struck a different tone this week after yet another person was killed at the hands of law enforcement.

With the parents of Tyre Nichols, the Black man who died after being beaten by police in Memphis, sitting in the audience on Tuesday evening, Mr. Biden said in his annual address to Congress that it was time to “finish the job on police reform.”

“When police officers or police departments violate the public trust, they must be held accountable,” Mr. Biden said. “All of us in this chamber, we need to rise to this moment.”

Mr. Biden’s speech included one of the most impassioned calls for police accountability of his presidency, but many of his efforts to overhaul policing in America have been incomplete.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/us/politics/biden-police-state-of-the-union.html

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