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# PREVIEW: How police reform failed
- URL: https://www.readtangle.com/otherposts/preview-how-police-reform-failed/
- Published: 2021-10-01T13:08:17.000Z
- Updated: 2021-10-01T13:08:17.000Z
- Author: Isaac Saul
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Not long ago, police reform felt like the most pressing issue in America.

In the wake of George Floyld's death, a national reckoning on race relations ushered in one major demand from progressives and even many middle-of-the-road Democrats: fixing the way policing works in our country.

Progressives found common cause with community leaders from urban areas, Libertarians, small-government conservatives and traditionally establishment Democrats who had long been supportive of police unions and standard police practices more generally. 

A Black Republican Senator from South Carolina named Tim Scott took up the cause, joining hands with his Democratic colleagues — Sen. Corey Booker from New Jersey and Rep. Karen Bass from California. For anyone who cared about the issue and allowed themselves a moment of hope, it was easy to muster optimism that the federal government was finally going to do something — anything — to change the way policing worked in America.

But last week, with the country's eyes on Afghanistan, infrastructure, Haitian migrants, abortion laws in Texas and our beef with France, [police reform in Congress quietly died](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/bipartisan-police-reform-legislation-talks-end-without-deal-sen-booker-n1279880?ref=readtangle.com). 

The news made very little waves on Instagram or Twitter, where pleas for reform were so popular just a short year ago. It barely registered on my radar, and I'm a political reporter who cares deeply about this issue and has covered it extensively in this newsletter. So... what happened?