“If I get elected president, 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. We're going to sit down there and we're going to work it out.”
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Biden pledged a White House national commission on policing bringing together police chiefs, civil rights activists, and community groups. On April 12-13, 2021, within his first 100 days, White House Domestic Policy Council Director Susan Rice explicitly announced the administration would not pursue that promised oversight commission, saying the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act was the priority instead. That legislation subsequently collapsed in Senate negotiations in September 2021, and no national policing commission was ever convened during Biden's term, which ended January 20, 2025. Because the administration was squarely asked about the specific promised mechanism and affirmatively declined to create it rather than simply never addressing the question, this is best characterized as actively avoiding the promised stand rather than mere non-engagement.
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