Today, George Floyd's little brother, Philanise Floyd, testified before Congress.

If this death end up changing the world for the better, and I think it will, then he died

as he lived.

It is on you to make sure his death is not in vain.

Congress is trying.

On Monday, Democrats proposed what they consider a transformative police reform bill.

And on today's show, we're going to explain what's in it.

But first, we're going to try and figure out why policing in the United States is so problematic

because it is not this bad everywhere else.

Take for example, England.

This is Paul Hirschfield.

He teaches criminal justice at Rutgers in Jersey.

But again, we're talking about England for a second, not Jersey.

Knife violence is quite common there.

I believe yet it is extremely rare for police officers in England to use deadly force on

knife wielding suspects.

So they have learned to confront those sorts of deadly threats with much less lethal approaches.

To put more time and distance between them and the suspect, to learn better skills for

de-escalation, to use less lethal weaponry and equipment for the purpose of subduing those

sorts of attackers.

The police in England have a greater sense of legitimacy and have more respect from the

public precisely because they are putting themselves out there.

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