This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Wednesday, September 15th, 2021.

I'm Caleb Brown.

How have states responded to widespread protest in 2020 over police abuse?

And what's the trend in state laws for criminal justice more broadly.

Robert Alt in a report for the Federalist Society details how states alter their criminal justice

systems. We spoke last month. A lot has happened since we last spoke

about criminal justice reform and what states are doing on criminal justice reform.

I at the time lived in Louisville, Kentucky,

which had a pretty bad year in 2020,

all things considered both as everybody else had with the

pandemic but also the killing of an unarmed woman in her own apartment by police

searching for drugs and I wonder about the reforms that

states have made in the wake of the death of George Floyd and that sort of

thing. So to begin here what kind of reforms have we seen to either policing or how police

interact with average people? So I think if you take a look back at 20-20 that

really was one of the dominant themes following

George Floyd's death, state and local governments enacted policing policy changes

designed to make law enforcement agencies more

transparent and accountable through civilian oversight boards. They

modified police training, techniques and tactics through ban on chokehold restraints and use of crowd control weapons.

A lot of this was done through state and local initiative process.

If you took a look and just sort of a tremendous amount of that.

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