Public health research and investment in police violence

(a) In general The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall establish within the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (referred to in this section as the Center) a law enforcement violence prevention program. (b) General duties In implementing the program under subsection (a), the Center shall conduct research into, and provide leadership and coordination for— (1) the understanding and promotion of knowledge about the public health impacts of uses of force by law enforcement, including police brutality and violence; (2) developing public health interventions and perspectives for eliminating deaths, injury, trauma, and negative mental health effects from police presence and interactions, including police brutality and violence; and (3) ensuring comprehensive data collection, analysis, and reporting regarding police violence and misconduct in consultation with the Department of Justice and independent researchers. (c) Functions Under the program under subsection (a), the Center shall— (1) summarize and enhance the knowledge of the distribution, status, and characteristics of law enforcement-related death, trauma, and injury; (2) conduct research and prepare, with the assistance of State public health departments— (A) statistics on law enforcement-related death, injury, and brutality; (B) studies of the factors, including legal, socioeconomic, discrimination, and other factors that correlate with or influence police brutality; (C) public information about uses of force by law enforcement, including police brutality and violence, for the practical use of the public health community, including publications that synthesize information relevant to the national goal of understanding police violence and methods for its control; (D) information to identify socioeconomic groups, communities, and geographic areas in need of study, and a strategic plan for research necessary to comprehend the extent and nature of police uses of force by law enforcement, including police brutality and violence, and determine what options exist to reduce or eradicate death and injury that result; and (E) best practices in police violence prevention in other countries; (3) award grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements to provide for the conduct of epidemiologic research on uses of force by law enforcement, including police brutality and violence, by Federal, State, local, and private agencies, institutions, organizations, and individuals; (4) award grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements to community groups, independent research organizations, academic institutions, and other entities to support, execute, or conduct research on interventions to reduce or eliminate uses of force by law enforcement, including police brutality and violence; (5) coordinate with the Department of Justice, and other Federal, State, and local agencies on the standardization of data collection, storage, and retrieval necessary to collect, evaluate, analyze, and disseminate information about the extent and nature of uses of force by law enforcement, including police brutality and violence, as well as options for the eradication of such practices; (6) submit an annual report to Congress on research findings with recommendations to improve data collection and standardization and to disrupt processes in policing that preserve and reinforce racism and racial disparities in public health; (7) conduct primary research and explore uses of force by law enforcement, including police brutality and violence, and options for its control; and (8) study alternatives to law enforcement response as a method of reducing police violence. (d) Authorization of appropriations There is authorized to be appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.