Bill Text: IL HR0909 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expresses support for strengthening efforts to eliminate instances of excessive use of force, to conduct stringent oversight and independent investigations into instances of police brutality, racial profiling, and excessive use of force, and to hold individual law enforcement officers and police departments accountable. Calls for the adoption of sound and unbiased law enforcement policies at all levels of government that reduce the disparate impact of police brutality and use of force on Black and Brown people and other historically marginalized communities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-01-08 - Suspend Rule 21 - Prevailed 066-039-000 [HR0909 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HR0909-Introduced.html

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HOUSE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Police use of force is among the leading causes of
death for young men of color; and
WHEREAS, Black people, including Black women and girls,
Native Americans, and Latinos are killed by police at
disproportionately higher rates than their White peers; and
WHEREAS, Police brutality and the use of excessive force
have robbed countless communities of precious lives, inflicted
intergenerational harm and trauma to families, and intensified
our nation's mental health crisis; and
WHEREAS, The killings of hundreds each year and the
demonstrations that followed have brought sustained national
attention to racially biased police violence against people;
and
WHEREAS, The conduct of police officers who engage in
racial profiling and excessive force, which can include
shootings, brutal beatings, fatal chokings, and any other
excessive treatment, is a violation of federal and State
constitutional law; and
WHEREAS, The rule of law within our nation is undermined

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when police officers engage in conduct that is inconsistent
with federal and State constitutional law; and
WHEREAS, As elected officials, we have a moral and
constitutional obligation to protect the civil rights and
liberties of all people within our State from police abuses;
therefore, be it
RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
we support strengthening efforts to eliminate instances of
excessive use of force, to conduct stringent oversight and
independent investigations into instances of police brutality,
racial profiling, and excessive use of force, and to hold
individual law enforcement officers and police departments
accountable by doing the following:
(1) Calling on the United States Department of Justice
to reinstitute its role in investigating police
departments that violate civil rights and individual
instances of police brutality, violence, and racial
profiling and to assume a role in filing briefs urging
courts to reconsider decisions that permit unreasonable
and excessive police practices and establish meaningful
oversight of consent decrees; and
(2) Establishing independent all-civilian review
boards with the authority to effectively investigate

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incidents of police misconduct to ensure meaningful
community-level oversight, transparency, accountability,
and discipline of police officers; and be it further
RESOLVED, That we call for the adoption of sound and
unbiased law enforcement policies at all levels of government
that reduce the disparate impact of police brutality and use of
force on Black and Brown people and other historically
marginalized communities; and be it further
RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
delivered to the President of the United States, the U.S.
Senate Majority Leader, the U.S. Senate Minority Leader, the
U.S. Speaker of the House, the U.S. House of Representatives
Minority Leader, and all members of the Illinois Congressional
Delegation.