These would be supplemented by major transfer programs, supporting everything from "food cooperatives and urban gardens" to a universal basic income. Instead of funding police and incarceration, the BREATHE Act would redirect resources to "alternatives" like violence interruption and mediation programs- approaches either with little evidentiary support or which studies say do not work. Some of the plans involve federal regulation of state law, like "repealing all existing State juvenile offenses"-a move that would likely face a substantial constitutional challenge. Those include banning facial recognition and predictive policing tools ending mandatory minimums, life sentences, and "three strikes" laws and repealing "federal laws that criminalize human movement and border entry"-effectively legalizing crossing the border. The envisioned overhaul would also entail a number of legal changes. The first calls for comprehensive divestment of federal resources from policing, including an end to federal funding for police hiring, the abolition of ICE and the DEA, the defunding of school security officers, and major cuts to the Department of Defense's budget. The summary, released by the social justice umbrella organization Movement for Black Lives, outlines a comprehensive vision for overhauling the criminal justice system.
That vision in turn has a good chance at influencing 2020 contender Joe Biden and the Democratic Party's platform, due to be set next month. Pressley and Tlaib's support, however, signals that the Democrats' progressive wing is unsatisfied with the police reforms being pushed by their more moderate colleagues and would prefer a more radical overhaul. No official language for the BREATHE Act yet exists, and the proposal is unlikely to be passed wholesale into law. The bill would also, an official summary states, funnel unspecified amounts of federal money into massive new grant programs, which would be spent on priorities like school curricula on "colonialism," pilot programs for a universal basic income, and reparations for prostitutes. Ayanna Pressley (D., Mass.) and Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), both known as members of the House's uber-progressive "squad," backed the BREATHE Act, legislation that would strip federal law enforcement to the bone, disband the DEA and ICE, end federal funding for police, and "develop a time-bound plan to close all federal prisons." Two leading progressive House Democrats on Tuesday endorsed a proposal to radically overhaul the criminal justice system by dismantling policing and incarceration in the United States.
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