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PartialCriminal Justice, Policing & Public Safety

I promise you there will be a national commission on policing out of the White House where I'll bring everyone to the table, including police chiefs, including civil rights activists, including the NAACP, including the African, the Latino community.

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PartialFact-checker reviewConfidence: 80%

Independently verified. The specific promised deliverable — a White House national commission on policing bringing all stakeholders to the table — was explicitly abandoned: Susan Rice / the Domestic Policy Council put it on hold in April 2021 (The Hill, TIME, Axios), judging that a commission would delay the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. So the literal commission was never created. However, Biden substantively advanced the underlying intent by other means: after the George Floyd Act failed in the Senate, he signed Executive Order 14074 (May 25, 2022), which engaged federal law enforcement and civil rights groups and imposed accountability measures (chokehold ban, no-knock restrictions, body cameras, misconduct database). PolitiFact's nonpartisan Biden Promise Tracker independently rates this 'Compromise' — the exact 'Compromise'/PARTIAL equivalent — for precisely this reason. Adversarial fairness: the abandonment was a redirection of effort toward the same policy goal, not action against it, so this is neither IGNORED, MISALIGNED, nor HOSTILE; and because he actively dropped the commission itself rather than leading it, it is not CHAMPIONED. A politician of either party with this record (named commission scrapped, but an EO advancing the underlying reform and engaging the same stakeholders) would fairly earn PARTIAL under the same standard. Prior rating stands.

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