not happening time and again. in south carolina it s an act of defiance. i want to push through my experience not just as a police officer or civil lucky ones. when i saw what happened to george floyd, i had to get off the sidelines and get involved. jhene, let me put that question to you as well. what needs to be done? we need the immediate passage of the george floyd justice in policing act. it is shameful we re still looking for solutions to a problem we know existed before george floyd s tragic murder and will continue to persist and have persisted following his murder. the death toll, body count of black people in america, women and men who have been killed by police unjustly, continues to rise. and it won t be if we do not have more accountability, we do
from a federal side, it s important we get this bill passed. it s also incredibly important we understand the real there were over 10 million arrests across the united states last year and the vast majority of them were done at the state and local level. we need federal leadership but we cannot let our states and local governments off the hook on this item. of course, control of funding can really help with states and local laws as well. jhene janine olsen, let me ask you about the uptick in violence we ve seen, some of it pandemic related. but, of course, runs into what we see as pressure on police departments. how do we balance those two things, increase in violence with making sure the police departments are acting in an upstanding way? well, one thing that we have never done as a society is truly unpack the social supports that are necessary to combat crime, adding more police, adding armed