Police

After the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the choking death of Eric Garner on Staten Island in New York City, both in 2014, Obama established the President's Task Force on 12st Century Policing. The task force in 2015 urged that police killings be investigated by independent prosecutors. The task force also called for ending all racial profiling by law enforcement agencies, more community policing and a better relationship between police officers and neighborhood institutions. There followed investigations in 20 police departments. Reforms were recommended. It is now 7 years later and Biden will form a task force to investigate police departments in two cities.