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• Ban private prisons, cash bail, and civil forfeiture.

• End the militarization of police.

• Reform the police force to ensure that every dollar spent is put to good use and every officer isn’t overwhelmed with an excessive amount of duties.

• Expand dialogue between law enforcement and the communities in which they serve to improve relations on both sides.

• End racial and religious profiling among law enforcement.

• End mass incarceration.

• Explore alternatives to confinement for non-violent, low level offenders.

• Phase out penalties for marijuana at the federal level.

• Invest in programs working to help inmates re-enter society in a productive manner.

• Ban no-knock warrants.

• Ban chokeholds and any method of restraint that inhibits an individual’s ability to breathe.

• Establish nongovernmental entity responsible for investigating incidences where unarmed individuals were killed by law enforcement.

• Expand and increase dialogue with and representation of law enforcement personnel and criminal justice activists in the federal government.

• Seek to condemn white supremacy and far right nationalism in all its forms. Label organizations in this category as hate and terrorists groups.

• Perform thorough analysis of federal law enforcement apparatus. Fund programs that are working, lower funding for programs with inflated budgets, defund programs that aren’t effective.

• Fund continued processing of backlogged rape kits and other physical materials collected during law enforcement investigations.
  
• Reform and optimize National Crime Information Center to better help law enforcement.
  
• Analyze national DNA and fingerprint databases to determine their effectiveness and whether all of law enforcement has access.

• Examine use of solitary confinement in prisons nationwide and seek to eliminate or reduce it.

• Fund creation and maintenance of database of missing persons and unidentified victims associated with properties managed by the National Parks Service.

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