Bipartisan Policing Reform Talks Fail
Bipartisan policing reform talks have officially failed. Sens. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) and Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) and Rep. Karen Bass (D-California) spent months in negotiation with little progress. “The effort from the very beginning was to get police reform that would raise professional standards, police reform that would create a more transparent way, one that would create accountability and we were not able to come to agreements on those three big areas,” Booker told reporters on Wednesday. “It was clear to me that we weren’t making any more substantive progress.” Scott is now bla...