Sen. Kamala Harris dismisses Trump executive order on policing: 'We don't need empty promises'

'We have to ban chokeholds... it is a bad practice and it has to end,' says Sen. KamalaHarris. 'These are the very specific things that we know and actually a lot of best police practices acknowledge that these reforms are needed.'

L.A. police union commends motion to replace some officers with non-law enforcement agenciesThe Los Angeles Police Protective League, a union representing nearly 10,000 L.A. sworn personnel, said the move towould help improve outcomes between police and the communities they serve.

"We agree with Councilmember Wesson that not every call our city leaders have asked us to respond to should be a police response," said Tom Saggau, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Protective League. "We are more than willing to talk about how, or if, we respond to non-criminal and non-emergency calls so we can free up time to respond quickly to 911 calls, crack down on violent and property crime, and expand our community policing efforts.

"We only go where policymakers say to go, and they always say 'let's send the police to these situations,'" Saggau said.

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