Hi, this is Gabriel in Orange County, California. I'm out for a late night run trying to lose that quarantine 15 while I listen to the NPR politics podcast.

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It is 208 Eastern on Tuesday, June 16th, happy Bloomsday to the nerds out there.

Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but I'll still be out running.

We believe in you.

Sounds great, very inspirational.

I like that everybody's suffering from a quarantine 15. I feel supported here. This is wonderful.

I'm moving in the opposite direction, so I appreciate his efforts.

Hey there, it's the NPR politics podcast. I'm Scott Detro. I cover the presidential campaign.

I'm Claudio Garizales. I cover Congress.

And I'm a Shorasco. I cover the White House.

The President Trump signed an executive order today, outlining police tracking and reform efforts.

Today I'm signing an executive order encouraging police to park in station White to adopt the highest professional standards to serve their communities.

These standards will be as high and as strong as there is on Earth.

Aisha, what do we know about this plan?

This is an executive order that would, part of what it would do is try to track misconduct.

Because there's this issue where you have police officers who may have done something wrong on one job,

and then they leave that job, but they're able to get hired someplace else, even though they've engaged in bad behavior elsewhere.

So this is supposed to try to make a federal database. What it would also do is that it would use federal grants to encourage departments to meet these higher certification standards on use of force.

This basically try to use credentialing and the use of federal grants as really a carrot to, if you want these grants, get credentialed in these modern policing standards.

And then you can get more federal money. The other thing is that it would encourage police officers to have to work with social workers and mental health advocates on certain calls to go out together because sometimes police officers are dealing with people with mental health issues or with other issues that's not necessarily criminal.

Fair to say though that there's still a pretty big gap between what this does and the types of big reforms that a lot of protesters and advocates have been pushing for.

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