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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 1418 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require the Attorney General to develop reports relating to violent attacks |
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| 6 | 6 | | against law enforcement officers, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | APRIL10, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. G |
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| 10 | 10 | | RASSLEY(for himself, Mr. LUJA´N, Mr. TILLIS, Ms. HASSAN, and Mr. |
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| 12 | 12 | | ASSIDY) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred |
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| 13 | 13 | | to the Committee on the Judiciary |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL |
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| 15 | 15 | | To require the Attorney General to develop reports relating |
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| 16 | 16 | | to violent attacks against law enforcement officers, and |
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| 17 | 17 | | for other purposes. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Improving Law En-4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | forcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data 5 |
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| 23 | 23 | | Act’’. 6 |
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| 24 | 24 | | SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 7 |
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| 25 | 25 | | Congress finds the following: 8 |
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| 27 | 27 | | mprince on LAP1J3WLY3PROD with $$_JOB 2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | •S 1418 IS |
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| 29 | 29 | | (1) There has been a rise in anti-police rhetoric 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | and a corresponding rise in violence against law en-2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | forcement officers. 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (2) In 2022, a total of 60 police officers were 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | feloniously killed in the line of duty. 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (3) Nearly 30 percent of police officer killings 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | in 2022 were caused by unprovoked attacks or am-7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | bushes on officers. 8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (4) Law enforcement officers bravely put them-9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | selves at risk for the betterment of society. 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (5) A data collection that represents the full 11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | circumstances surrounding violent attacks and am-12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | bush attacks on law enforcement officers is vital for 13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | the provision of needed Federal resources to Fed-14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | eral, State, and local law enforcement officers. 15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (6) Police suffer assaults and other offenses 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | that do not rise to the level of Law Enforcement Of-17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ficers Killed and Assaulted or National Incident- 18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | Based Reporting System reporting due to the fre-19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | quency of such incidents, lower risk to officers, and 20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | minimal administrative resources to report such fre-21 |
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| 50 | 50 | | quent events. 22 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (7) The mental health of law enforcement offi-23 |
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| 52 | 52 | | cers has suffered due to overwork, recruitment 24 |
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| 53 | 53 | | issues, and the general stress of their work. 25 |
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| 56 | 56 | | •S 1418 IS |
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| 57 | 57 | | (8) The people of the United States will always 1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | remember the victims of these hateful attacks 2 |
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| 59 | 59 | | against law enforcement officers and stand in soli-3 |
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| 60 | 60 | | darity with individuals affected by these senseless 4 |
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| 61 | 61 | | tragedies and incidents of hate that have affected 5 |
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| 62 | 62 | | law enforcement communities and their families. 6 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (9) The United States must demonstrate to its 7 |
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| 64 | 64 | | brave law enforcement officers that they are impor-8 |
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| 65 | 65 | | tant, valued, and respected. 9 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (10) Congress has made a commitment to help-10 |
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| 67 | 67 | | ing communities protect the lives of their police offi-11 |
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| 68 | 68 | | cers, as evidenced by the Bulletproof Vest Partner-12 |
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| 69 | 69 | | ship Grant Program Reauthorization Act of 2015 13 |
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| 70 | 70 | | (Public Law 114–155; 130 Stat. 389) and other 14 |
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| 71 | 71 | | laws. 15 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (11) Subsection (c) of the Uniform Federal 16 |
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| 73 | 73 | | Crime Reporting Act of 1988 (34 U.S.C. 41303(c)) 17 |
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| 74 | 74 | | requires the Attorney General to ‘‘acquire, collect, 18 |
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| 75 | 75 | | classify, and preserve national data on Federal 19 |
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| 76 | 76 | | criminal offenses as part of the Uniform Crime Re-20 |
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| 77 | 77 | | ports’’ and requires all Federal departments and 21 |
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| 78 | 78 | | agencies that investigate criminal activity to ‘‘report 22 |
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| 79 | 79 | | details about crime within their respective jurisdic-23 |
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| 80 | 80 | | tion to the Attorney General in a uniform matter 24 |
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| 81 | 81 | | and on a form prescribed by the Attorney General’’. 25 |
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| 84 | 84 | | •S 1418 IS |
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| 85 | 85 | | SEC. 3. ATTACKS ON LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS RE-1 |
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| 86 | 86 | | PORTING REQUIREMENT. 2 |
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| 87 | 87 | | (a) I |
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| 88 | 88 | | NGENERAL.—Not later than 270 days after the 3 |
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| 89 | 89 | | date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General, in 4 |
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| 90 | 90 | | consultation with the Director of the Federal Bureau of 5 |
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| 91 | 91 | | Investigation, the Director of the National Institute of 6 |
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| 92 | 92 | | Justice, and the Director of the Criminal Justice Informa-7 |
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| 93 | 93 | | tion Services Division of the Federal Bureau of Investiga-8 |
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| 94 | 94 | | tion, shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of 9 |
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| 95 | 95 | | the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the 10 |
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| 96 | 96 | | House of Representatives a report that includes— 11 |
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| 97 | 97 | | (1) the number of offenders that intentionally 12 |
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| 98 | 98 | | target law enforcement officers because of their sta-13 |
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| 99 | 99 | | tus as law enforcement officers; 14 |
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| 100 | 100 | | (2) the number of incidents reported to the 15 |
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| 101 | 101 | | Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted 16 |
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| 102 | 102 | | Data Collection that occur through the coordinated 17 |
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| 103 | 103 | | actions of 2 or more parties; 18 |
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| 104 | 104 | | (3) a description of the Federal response to am-19 |
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| 105 | 105 | | bushes and violent attacks on Federal law enforce-20 |
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| 106 | 106 | | ment officers; 21 |
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| 107 | 107 | | (4) a detailed survey of what State and local re-22 |
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| 108 | 108 | | sponses are to ambushes and violent attacks on 23 |
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| 109 | 109 | | State and local law enforcement officers; 24 |
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| 112 | 112 | | •S 1418 IS |
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| 113 | 113 | | (5) recommendations for improving State, local, 1 |
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| 114 | 114 | | and Federal responses to ambushes and violent at-2 |
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| 115 | 115 | | tacks on law enforcement officers; 3 |
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| 116 | 116 | | (6) a detailed survey of Federal and State- 4 |
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| 117 | 117 | | based training programs that law enforcement offi-5 |
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| 118 | 118 | | cers receive in preparation for violent attacks, in-6 |
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| 119 | 119 | | cluding ambush attacks; 7 |
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| 120 | 120 | | (7) an analysis of the effectiveness of the pro-8 |
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| 121 | 121 | | grams described in paragraph (6) in preparing law 9 |
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| 122 | 122 | | enforcement officers for violent attacks, including 10 |
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| 123 | 123 | | ambush attacks; 11 |
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| 124 | 124 | | (8) recommendations on how to improve State, 12 |
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| 125 | 125 | | local, and Federal training programs for law en-13 |
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| 126 | 126 | | forcement officers relating to ambush attacks; 14 |
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| 127 | 127 | | (9) an analysis of, with respect to the Patrick 15 |
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| 128 | 128 | | Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership under part Y of 16 |
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| 129 | 129 | | title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 17 |
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| 130 | 130 | | Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10530 et seq.)— 18 |
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| 131 | 131 | | (A) the efficacy of the Partnership in dis-19 |
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| 132 | 132 | | tributing protective gear to law enforcement of-20 |
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| 133 | 133 | | ficers across the United States, including any 21 |
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| 134 | 134 | | location-specific limitations to the distribution 22 |
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| 135 | 135 | | under such Partnership; and 23 |
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| 136 | 136 | | (B) the general limitations of the Partner-24 |
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| 137 | 137 | | ship, including any location-specific limitations 25 |
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| 140 | 140 | | •S 1418 IS |
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| 141 | 141 | | to the distributions under the Partnership, con-1 |
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| 142 | 142 | | sidering the fact that law enforcement officers 2 |
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| 143 | 143 | | are suffering from ambush attacks; 3 |
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| 144 | 144 | | (10) an analysis of the ability of the Depart-4 |
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| 145 | 145 | | ment of Justice to combine the Law Enforcement 5 |
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| 146 | 146 | | Officers Killed and Assaulted Data Collection and a 6 |
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| 147 | 147 | | 09C Justifiable Homicide report for officer-involved 7 |
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| 148 | 148 | | shooting reports and any roadblocks to producing a 8 |
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| 149 | 149 | | clear report with such information; 9 |
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| 150 | 150 | | (11) an analysis of the ability of the Criminal 10 |
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| 151 | 151 | | Justice Information Services of the Federal Bureau 11 |
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| 152 | 152 | | of Investigation to expand data collection to include 12 |
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| 153 | 153 | | a suspect offender’s level of injury at the time of a 13 |
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| 154 | 154 | | reported Law Enforcement Officers Killed and As-14 |
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| 155 | 155 | | saulted Data Collection incident; 15 |
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| 156 | 156 | | (12) an analysis of the existence and extent of, 16 |
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| 157 | 157 | | and reasons for, disparities in the availability and 17 |
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| 158 | 158 | | reporting of data between— 18 |
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| 159 | 159 | | (A) data relating to ambush attacks 19 |
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| 160 | 160 | | against law enforcement officers; and 20 |
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| 161 | 161 | | (B) other types of violent crime data; and 21 |
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| 162 | 162 | | (13) an analysis of any additional legislative 22 |
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| 163 | 163 | | tools or authorities that may be helpful or necessary 23 |
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| 164 | 164 | | to assist in deterring ambush attacks against law en-24 |
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| 165 | 165 | | forcement officers. 25 |
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| 169 | 169 | | (b) DEVELOPMENT.—In developing the report re-1 |
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| 170 | 170 | | quired under subsection (a), the Attorney General, the Di-2 |
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| 171 | 171 | | rector of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Director 3 |
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| 172 | 172 | | of the National Institute of Justice, and the Director of 4 |
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| 173 | 173 | | the Criminal Justice Information Services Division of the 5 |
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| 174 | 174 | | Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall consult relevant 6 |
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| 175 | 175 | | stakeholders, including— 7 |
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| 176 | 176 | | (1) Federal, State, Tribal, and local law en-8 |
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| 177 | 177 | | forcement agencies; and 9 |
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| 178 | 178 | | (2) nongovernmental organizations, inter-10 |
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| 179 | 179 | | national organizations, academies, or other entities. 11 |
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| 180 | 180 | | SEC. 4. AGGRESSION AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFI-12 |
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| 181 | 181 | | CERS REPORTING REQUIREMENT. 13 |
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| 182 | 182 | | (a) I |
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| 183 | 183 | | NGENERAL.—Not later than 270 days after the 14 |
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| 184 | 184 | | date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General, in 15 |
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| 185 | 185 | | consultation with the Director of the Federal Bureau of 16 |
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| 186 | 186 | | Investigation and the Director of the National Institute 17 |
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| 187 | 187 | | of Justice, shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary 18 |
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| 188 | 188 | | of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the 19 |
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| 189 | 189 | | House of Representatives a report on— 20 |
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| 190 | 190 | | (1) an analysis of the ability to implement a 21 |
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| 191 | 191 | | new category in the Uniform Crime Reporting Sys-22 |
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| 192 | 192 | | tem and the National Incident-Based Reporting Sys-23 |
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| 193 | 193 | | tem on aggressive actions, conduct, or other trauma- 24 |
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| 194 | 194 | | inducing incidents against law enforcement officers 25 |
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| 198 | 198 | | that, as of the date of enactment of this Act, are not 1 |
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| 199 | 199 | | reported in such systems; 2 |
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| 200 | 200 | | (2) the level of detail the category described in 3 |
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| 201 | 201 | | paragraph (1) would include and the standard of 4 |
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| 202 | 202 | | evidence that would be used for any reported inci-5 |
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| 203 | 203 | | dents; 6 |
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| 204 | 204 | | (3) an analysis of how to engage State and local 7 |
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| 205 | 205 | | law enforcement agencies in reporting the data de-8 |
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| 206 | 206 | | scribed in paragraph (1), despite the fact that such 9 |
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| 207 | 207 | | data is beyond the standard crime-based reporting to 10 |
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| 208 | 208 | | the systems described in paragraph (1); 11 |
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| 209 | 209 | | (4) an analysis of potential uses by the Depart-12 |
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| 210 | 210 | | ment of Justice and any component agencies of the 13 |
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| 211 | 211 | | Department of Justice of the data described in para-14 |
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| 212 | 212 | | graph (1); 15 |
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| 213 | 213 | | (5) an analysis of the existence and extent of, 16 |
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| 214 | 214 | | and reasons for, disparities in the availability and 17 |
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| 215 | 215 | | reporting of data between— 18 |
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| 216 | 216 | | (A) data relating to aggressive actions or 19 |
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| 217 | 217 | | other trauma-inducing incidents against law en-20 |
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| 218 | 218 | | forcement officers that do not rise to the level 21 |
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| 219 | 219 | | of crimes; and 22 |
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| 220 | 220 | | (B) other types of violent crime data; and 23 |
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| 221 | 221 | | (6) an analysis of additional legislative tools or 24 |
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| 222 | 222 | | authorities that may be helpful or necessary to assist 25 |
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| 226 | 226 | | in deterring aggressive actions, conduct, or other 1 |
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| 227 | 227 | | trauma-inducing incidents against law enforcement 2 |
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| 228 | 228 | | officers. 3 |
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| 229 | 229 | | (b) D |
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| 230 | 230 | | EVELOPMENT.—In developing the report under 4 |
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| 231 | 231 | | subsection (a), the Attorney General, the Director of the 5 |
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| 232 | 232 | | Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Director of the 6 |
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| 233 | 233 | | National Institute of Justice shall consult relevant stake-7 |
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| 234 | 234 | | holders, including— 8 |
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| 235 | 235 | | (1) Federal, State, Tribal, and local law en-9 |
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| 236 | 236 | | forcement agencies; and 10 |
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| 237 | 237 | | (2) nongovernmental organizations, inter-11 |
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| 238 | 238 | | national organizations, academies, or other entities. 12 |
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| 239 | 239 | | SEC. 5. MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS REPORTING RE-13 |
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| 240 | 240 | | QUIREMENT. 14 |
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| 241 | 241 | | (a) I |
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| 242 | 242 | | NGENERAL.—Not later than 270 days after the 15 |
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| 243 | 243 | | date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General, in 16 |
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| 244 | 244 | | consultation with the Director of the Federal Bureau of 17 |
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| 245 | 245 | | Investigation and the Director of the National Institute 18 |
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| 246 | 246 | | of Justice, shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary 19 |
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| 247 | 247 | | of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the 20 |
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| 248 | 248 | | House of Representatives a report on— 21 |
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| 249 | 249 | | (1) the types, frequency, and severity of mental 22 |
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| 250 | 250 | | health and stress-related responses of law enforce-23 |
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| 251 | 251 | | ment officers to aggressive actions or other trauma- 24 |
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| 252 | 252 | | inducing incidents against law enforcement officers; 25 |
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| 256 | 256 | | (2) mental health and stress-related resources 1 |
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| 257 | 257 | | or programs that are available to law enforcement 2 |
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| 258 | 258 | | officers at the Federal, State, and local levels, espe-3 |
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| 259 | 259 | | cially peer-to-peer programs; 4 |
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| 260 | 260 | | (3) the extent to which law enforcement officers 5 |
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| 261 | 261 | | use the resources or programs described in para-6 |
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| 262 | 262 | | graph (2); 7 |
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| 263 | 263 | | (4) the availability of, or need for, mental 8 |
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| 264 | 264 | | health screening within Federal, State, and local law 9 |
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| 265 | 265 | | enforcement agencies; and 10 |
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| 266 | 266 | | (5) additional legislative tools or authorities 11 |
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| 267 | 267 | | that may be helpful or necessary to assist in assess-12 |
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| 268 | 268 | | ing, monitoring, and improving the mental health 13 |
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| 269 | 269 | | and wellness of Federal, State, and local law en-14 |
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| 270 | 270 | | forcement officers. 15 |
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| 271 | 271 | | (b) D |
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| 272 | 272 | | EVELOPMENT.—In developing the report re-16 |
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| 273 | 273 | | quired under subsection (a), the Attorney General, the Di-17 |
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| 274 | 274 | | rector of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Di-18 |
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| 275 | 275 | | rector of the National Institute of Justice shall consult 19 |
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| 276 | 276 | | relevant stakeholders, including— 20 |
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| 277 | 277 | | (1) Federal, State, Tribal and local law enforce-21 |
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| 278 | 278 | | ment agencies; and 22 |
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| 279 | 279 | | (2) nongovernmental organizations, inter-23 |
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| 280 | 280 | | national organizations, academies, or other entities. 24 |
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