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AP Photo/Chris Carlson On March 17, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed House Bill 2037 into law. Calling it a “clarification,” Inslee signed the bill that walks back a key piece of the Democrat-controlled legislature’s police reform package of bills signed into law less than a year prior. Inslee had called the police reform bills a “moral mandate” when signing them into law in May 2021, in response to the killing of George Floyd in 2020. The Democratic governor signed two other “clarification” bills earlier this month.
In their rush to condemn police officers throughout the state after 2020’s Summer of Love , the legislature and the governor created massive confusion about the practice of policing, making it virtually impossible to distinguish legal policing from excessive force.
One of the bills passed in 2021, HB 1310, restricted police throughout the state from using “Terry stops.” Activists and reformers believed these temporary detentions, used to secure suspects while investigating possible involvement in crimes, targeted minorities. The AP reported : Following 2020’s widespread protests for police accountability in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, Washington lawmakers passed an array of reforms covering everything from the background checks officers undergo before they’re hired to the circumstances under which they can be decertified. Among them was House Bill 1310, which said officers could use force only when they had probable cause to make an arrest or to prevent imminent injury, and that they were required to use appropriate de-escalation tactics if possible. Police said the measure hindered their response to crime: Often when officers show up at a scene, they need to detain people to figure out if they were involved in a crime. But under House Bill 1310, they couldn’t use force to detain them unless they already had probable cause to arrest them, they […]
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