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America has a serious problem when it comes to discriminatory policing and excessive and deadly force used against communities of color. We cant properly honor the lives of the victims of this violence if we dont take meaningful steps to prevent future violence and deaths from occurring and make our communities safer.
We made it clear from the beginning of our negotiations that a bill must ensure true accountability, transparency, and the policing standards necessary to bring an end to horrific incidents of violence Americans are routinely seeing -- like the murder of George Floyd. After months of exhausting every possible pathway to a bipartisan deal, it remains out of reach right now, even after working collaboratively with and securing the support of policing groups like the Fraternal Order of Police and International Association of Chiefs of Police for our proposals.
Unfortunately, even with this law enforcement support and further compromises we offered, there was still too wide a gulf with our negotiating partners and we faced significant obstacles to securing a bipartisan deal.
The time has come to explore all other options to achieve meaningful and common sense policing reform. I will not stop fighting until we achieve change that keeps our communities and police officers safe.
https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-statement-on-bipartisan-policing-reform-negotiations
msongs
(67,193 posts)Karadeniz
(22,277 posts)Zeitghost
(3,796 posts)People say they want police reform and then they post 100 threads about people who they think need to be investigated, locked up, sentenced to life or even execution.
Same with sentencing reform, just see the current thread about the drug dealer who got 4 years for manslaughter. That's what you get when you support sentencing reform, murderers getting light sentences.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)and follow the mistake up with "Sorry, but you are the problem here..."
So yeah... look closely enough just about anywhere and there's a ton of holding others to a higher standard then we hold ourselves to.
Zeitghost
(3,796 posts)If you want to criticize me because I think sick leave is a basic right of the employed and shouldn't have to be traded for vacation or a retirement plan, I am more than happy to take the shots. You only embarrass yourself and show how little you care about American workers.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)It's fascinating watching some progressives screaming that mandatory minimums aren't enough, to hell with plea bargains, "throw the book at em and lock 'em up NOW!"
LiberatedUSA
(1,666 posts)
during times where there are both threads on how violent and trigger happy the cops are, while also threads on how we need gun control; which wont apply to the police we are protesting for abuse and murder.
A triple win, if there are any threads near those dealing with how it is good police in certain areas are not prosecuting some levels of crime, while also not being a fan of citizens employing self defense.
The AR-15s only belong on the battlefield line is a lie; as that type of gun control never applies to the cops (who are not at war in a war zone). The truth is, there is a desire to want both worlds. Where one side can trust the cops, but dont really care if they get violent with the other side; forgetting they will get violent with you as well. As well as not really having a problem with lots of people in jail, so long as it is the other side.
It is the same reason one can scream about rehabilitation and not punishing people for life, while at the same time wanting a kid in high school to never get a job or any income ever again for a woke violation and having Republican parents.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)I'm shocked, shocked that Sen. Scott doesn't have any clout within his party...
Celerity
(42,666 posts)All he and his ilk do is give dodgy AF cover for White Power, so that the wishy washy rubes (most MAGAts are not wishy washy, they relish the hate) can claim they are 'not racist' via pointing at the tokens.
ecstatic
(32,567 posts)with help from their shadowy partners who operate behind the scenes in all levels of government. Things will never change because a lot of people still don't understand that the problem isn't just cops--it's the entire system that is hell bent on maintaining some form of slavery/subjection. It's sad and disgusting that so many cop departments conduct themselves like branches of the KKK.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)continue to see the police as allies whose mission it is to and who do protect them from the others (and see the abuse and subjugation at best as outliers and aberrations, and worst, a welcome deterrent, not an ingrained part of the system), it will be difficult, if not impossible to achieve real reform.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)the George Floyd Justice in Policing bill itself was killed. Many more people will continue to be murdered and railroaded into prison as a result. Everything about this, and the literally sociopathic Republican Party of today, is so wrong.
Scott's taking in huge money from Republican megadonors, and there's talk of a presidential candidacy in 2024.