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发帖数: 587 | 1 A Response to Your Petition on Officer Peter Liang:
We the People
Thank you for signing a petition on the We the People platform. We responded
to an identical petition on July 28th, 2015 and have included that response
below.
A Response to Your Petition on the Indictment of Officer Peter Liang
Thank you for your petition regarding New York Police Department Officer
Peter Liang and the shooting death of Akai Gurley.
The White House has no role in the decision of a state or local prosecutor
to prosecute or not prosecute a case, and so we are not in a position to
address the specific request of the petition. The local entities -- in this
case, the District Attorney's office and the New York Police Department
-- will be the best source for information on this matter.
With that said, we also want to share some information about the work that
we're doing to build safer, stronger communities across our country.
In too many parts of our country, there is a deep distrust between
communities of color and the law enforcement that is obligated to serve and
protect them. And events over the past few months -- in cities and
communities such as Ferguson, Staten Island, Cleveland, and Baltimore --
have brought both national and international attention to this problem.
As Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in May:
"The issue of trust between and among law enforcement officers and the
communities we serve is the issue of our times...Every city deserves an
outstanding, world-class police force that works alongside local residents
to protect public safety. And every officer deserves the tools, training,
and support they need to do their jobs as safely and effectively as possible
."
Our law enforcement officers have difficult and often-dangerous jobs, and we
can never forget the sacrifices they make to keep our streets safe, our
communities strong, and our people protected. We have heard from leaders of
both law enforcement and communities that everyone is safer and better off
when there is a relationship of trust and mutual respect between police and
those they serve and protect -- which is why this Administration is working
with cities and communities across America on initiatives and policies to
improve those relationships.
Last December, President Obama launched the Task Force on 21st Century
Policing -- a group of law enforcement experts, academia, youth activists,
community leaders, and civil rights leaders focused on building strong and
collaborative community-police relationships. Task Force members talked with
community members, law enforcement officers, technical advisors, leaders of
grassroots movements, and many others.
In May, the Task Force released its final report laying out best practices
and recommendations for improving community and law enforcement relations.
These recommendations include providing opportunities for more training for
police at all levels, new initiatives to increase transparency and
accountability, putting policies in place that prioritize de-escalation and
avoid provocative tactics, and improving the safety and wellness of our law
enforcement officers.
As the President explained when he recently spoke in Camden, New Jersey, the
Task Force report lays out concrete proposals that every community in
America can implement to rebuild trust and help law enforcement. But for
these proposals to have an impact, the approximately 18,000 state and local
law enforcement agencies throughout the country must put them into practice.
We are committed to using the tools available to the federal government to
support the great work that's happening at the local level where cities
are already responding to these recommendations -- and to encourage others
to follow their lead. As one example, we've launched a Police Data
Initiative that is working with nearly two dozen innovative jurisdictions
who are using data to strengthen their work and are making themselves
accountable by sharing it with the public.
In addition, the President has called for expanded use of body-worn cameras;
he has asked Congress to provide financial support for state and local
acquisition of cameras and related technology through the Administration'
;s fiscal year 2016 budget; the Department of Justice has released an
approximately $20 million body-worn camera solicitation; and the Department
of Justice has created a body-worn camera toolkit to help jurisdictions
institute appropriate polices.
And the President has taken steps through the recommendations of the Law
Enforcement Equipment Working Group, which has now completed an extensive
review of federal programs that support the transfer of equipment to state,
local and tribal law enforcement agencies. There is now a unified list of
prohibited equipment that may not be acquired under any of the various
programs, and a unified list of equipment that law enforcement may acquire
only in accordance with new and more rigorous controls. On the basis of that
review, the Administration also put in place a series of measures to
enhance accountability, increase transparency, and better serve the needs of
law enforcement and local communities.
The steps we've taken so far -- working with federal, state, and local
law enforcement and civil rights advocates -- represent critical progress,
but solving the problem will require more than these recommendations. It
will require everyone understanding how important and significant this
problem is -- and it will require everyone doing their part to fix it.
The President firmly believes that these goals are achievable and that "
[i]f our society really wanted to solve the problem, we could -- it's
just that it would require everybody saying, 'This is important, this is
significant.'"
Again, thank you for signing this petition and speaking out -- and we will
keep working to make sure that America's justice system, in each and
every community, is truly just.
-- The We the People Team
If you want to dig deeper, listen to some excerpts from a conversation we
held in May on community policing:
On the Task Force on 21st Century Policing:
Listen to this excerpt from our community policing conversation.
On the Police Data Initiative:
Listen to this excerpt from our community policing conversation.
On making sure police are seen as guardians instead of occupiers:
Listen to this excerpt from our community policing conversation.
Listen to the full conversation here.
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发帖数: 587 | 2 根本就是不当回事的态度，还得去游行来扩大影响面
[在 siafu (siafu) 的大作中提到：]
：A Response to Your Petition on Officer Peter Liang:
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发帖数: 4559 | 3 这谁发起的二次petition？这智商逻辑和阅读理解忒给华人丢脸了，考GRE/TOFEL出来
的看不明白人家第一次的回复吗？为什么还要继续搞第二次？
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: 根本就是不当回事的态度，还得去游行来扩大影响面
: [在 siafu (siafu) 的大作中提到：]
: ：A Response to Your Petition on Officer Peter Liang:
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| c********i
发帖数: 942 | 4 白宫这个请愿本来就是作秀，
这个大家都知道，
请愿本身没卵用，不会解决什么实质问题
大家都是利用这个作秀的机会说话发声而已。
请愿者和白宫一起配合起来一本正经地作秀
但还是要点赞白宫提供了这个让人作秀和发声的机会
有总比没有好一些些
所以，碰到这种相关请愿，我一般顺手还是会签名支持 | s*******1
发帖数: 16479 | 5 没觉得白宫有问题。照道理司法独立，他们不能干涉的。所以我根本不签这个请愿 |
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