POLICE REFORM: Here are 10 of the country's top activists and lawmakers' ideas for police reform in America

"So much of policing right now is generated and directed towards quality-of-life issues, homelessness, drug addiction, domestic violence," Garza told NBC News.

"What we do need is increased funding for housing, we need increased funding for education, we need increased funding for quality of life of communities who are over-policed and over-surveilled."

House Democrats have put forward the Justice in Policing Act, the most sweeping set of law enforcement reforms proposed by Congress in recent decades. It focuses on increasing police accountability and curbing some of the most harmful police tactics.

The bill would put an end to qualified immunity, which protects law enforcement from civil lawsuits, create a higher federal use of force standard, log a national registry of police misconduct, and ban chokeholds and no-knock warrants.

House leaders have rejected calls to defund police departments.

"We want to work with our police departments," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said last week. "There are many things we call upon our police departments to deal with — mental health issues, policing in schools and the rest — that we could rebalance some of our funding to address some of those issues more directly. But this isn't about that."

Some of the measures in the GOP reform bill will reportedly be similar to those in the Democratic bill, including a national database of law enforcement misconduct, a ban on neck restraints and no-knock warrants, and lowering the legal bar for civil lawsuits against officers.

But Republicans have rejected other measures proposed by Democrats, including ending qualified immunity, which Scott has called a "poison pill" for the GOP.

Biden said he doesn't support calls to defund the police, but that funding should be conditional on the department's standards.

"I support conditioning federal aid to police based on whether or not they meet certain basic standards of decency and honorableness and in fact are able to demonstrate they can protect the community and everybody in the community," Biden told CBS News last week.

Biden announced last week that he's calling for an additional $300 million in federal funding "to reinvigorate community policing." He also wants to see increased investment in "mental health services, drug treatment and prevention programs, and services for people experiencing homelessness," he wrote in a USA Today op-ed.

"That may also mean having social service providers respond to calls with police officers," Biden added.

While many progressives are calling to reduce police interaction with Black and brown communities, Biden has long argued that more police on the streets improves safety.

And Biden's record on policing and criminal justice policy has long been scrutinized by progressives, who point to the 1994 crime bill he championed as a reason for mass incarceration, harsh sentencing, and the criminalization of poverty.

Paul is drafting legislation that would ban no-knock warrants, which allow police to enter without identifying themselves and the reason for their entry. He said he was motivated by the March killing of Breonna Taylor, who was shot by police that raided her apartment without a warrant in the middle of the night.

"After talking with Breonna Taylor's family, I've come to the conclusion that it's long past time to get rid of no-knock warrants," he said. "This bill will effectively end no-knock raids in the United States."

Paul also supports a bipartisan bill, the "Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act," that calls to ban the transfer of military weapons to local police departments.

"I support our officers, but I do not believe it is beneficial for neighborhoods across the United States to have the same kind of military-grade weapons that are commonly used in Afghanistan," Paul told Business Insider in a statement.

Notably, Paul has controversially prevented a federal anti-lynching bill from becoming law, arguing that it defines lynching too broadly.

"Affluent white communities already live in a world where they choose to fund youth, health, housing etc more than they fund police," Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a recent Instagram story, answering a question posed to her about what defunding police would look like.

She went on: "These communities have lower crime rates not because they have more police but [because] they have more resources to support a healthy society in a way that reduces crime."

"We need to fundamentally change the relationship between police and the cities, towns, and states they serve. Here in NYC, we plan to start by making significant cuts to the NYPD budget and reinvesting that money in communities, but we also need to bring transformational, structural change to how the NYPD operates," Johnson said in a statement to Business Insider.

He added, "Police do not need to be the front-line responders to every problem in the City. We need to get cops out of schools, out of homeless services, and out of mental health. We must replace them with people trained to serve with empathy and compassion instead of law enforcement. And we need to make sure that communities of color lead the way on this redesign from beginning to end."

In a statement to Business Insider, Mullins also called for the "best standards" for policing and better training for officers.

"In order to make any significant change in the divide amongst race and police a great deal of focus needs to be applied on the following: a) Freedom Political and Economic, b) Opportunity, c) Economic Growth, d) Quality of Life, e) Education," he concluded.

Mullins, a controversial figure who circulated a racist video last year, is being investigated by the NYPD after he declared "war" on NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio amid the police brutality protests.

The coalition of more than 200 national civil and human rights groups are also calling for an end to federal programs that transfer military equipment to local law enforcement, a ban on no-knock warrants, a change to the legal standard in order to hold police accountable for illegal conduct, a national misconduct database, and an end to qualified immunity for police.

Most of the organizations' eight demands overlap with the House police reform bill.

"When we stop using criminal justice policy as social policy, we will make communities safer and more prosperous," Leadership Conference president Vanita Gupta told Congress this week.

The Trump administration has denied the existence of systemic racism in policing, and Trump has said that a few "bad apples" are to blame for police violence.

Of his executive order, the president said it will boost funding for law enforcement.

"We're not defunding police. If anything we're going the other route," Trump said during a meeting with law enforcement in Dallas last week. "We're going to make sure our police are well trained, perfectly trained, they have the best equipment."