Sec. 1. Short title; findings
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This Act may be cited as the . Measuring What Matters Act Congress finds the following: On December 18, 2014, President Barack Obama signed an Executive order establishing the Task Force on 21st Century Policing. The President charged the task force with identifying best practices and offering recommendations on how policing practices can promote effective crime reduction while building public trust. The task force, which met 7 times in January and February of 2015, brought the 11 members of the task force together with more than 100 individuals from diverse stakeholder groups—police officers and executives, community members, civic leaders, advocates, researchers, academics, and others—in addition to many others who submitted written testimony to study the problems from all perspectives.
The task force recommendations, each with action items, were organized around six main topic areas or pillars , with the first being the Building Trust and Legitimacy Pillar. Recommendation 1.7 under the Building Trust and Legitimacy Pillar found that police departments should track the level of trust in police by their communities just as they measure changes in crime. The 1.7.1 action item of recommendation 1.7 was that the Federal Government should develop survey tools and instructions for use of such a model to prevent local departments from incurring the expense and to allow for consistency across jurisdictions.