Former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton talks about his hopes for police reform - The Takeout By Jacob Rosen
June 11, 2021 / 6:00 AM / CBS News
Even as congressional negotiations continue on police reform legislation, former New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton says policing in America is in a good place at this time, despite all the controversy, because [police] are in the spotlight. As the government gets ready to spend trillions of dollars on a multitude of issues, let s hope they put some of that money into the reforms that are going to get policing farther down the path of reform, Bratton told CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett on this week s episode of The Takeout podcast. Bratton has decades of experience, having served as Boston police commissioner and Los Angeles Police Department chief in addition to two terms as New York City police commissioner.
CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger spoke with chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett for this week's episode of "The Takeout" podcast.
House members discuss their bipartisan bill on higher numbers of migrants at border By Grace Segers
April 23, 2021 / 6:00 AM / CBS News
Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar and Republican Congressman John Katko have teamed up on a bill to require the Department of Homeland Security to provide a plan for managing the large number of migrants crossing the southern border into the U.S. The bill, called the Border Surge Response and Resilience Act, would allow DHS to draw from an emergency fund once their plan is triggered. We have to have funding available to address that issue, Cuellar said in a joint interview with Katko for this week s episode of The Takeout podcast, hosted by CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett. There has been a recent influx of migrants crossing the southern border, including thousands of unaccompanied minors.
NAACP president says criminal justice system is on trial along with Derek Chauvin By Grace Segers George Floyd s girlfriend testifies
The eyes of the nation are fixed on the trial of Derek Chauvin, the fired Minneapolis officer charged in the death of George Floyd, which spurred a wave of protests across the country against police brutality and racial violence over the summer. Derrick Johnson, the president of the NAACP, believes that the country s criminal justice system is on trial, too. When we consider this trial, we must recognize that our criminal justice system is actually on trial. The right to breathe as a Black man is on trial, Johnson said in an interview with CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett in this week s episode of The Takeout podcast.
The $1.9 trillion package "is calibrated to be of a magnitude to finally deal this COVID-19 virus the blow that hasn't occurred yet," Bernstein says.