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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Voice of Reason

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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Daily News, Society & Culture, News

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Hour 2 of A&G features guest host Chris Merrill and his guest Debra Saunders from the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

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0:00.0

I'm starting to get on vacation. We're not fired like it says on social media. We get vacation on a contract just like you do. Chris Merrill is filling in quite a bleak take it away, Merrill.

0:26.0

Thanks guys.

0:27.0

Lucho, Prisciato.

0:29.0

All right, one of the big topics in nationwide is in light of the protest. Protesters are calling for police reform.

0:38.0

And what does that mean? What does it look like? What's being done? What reforms are happening? Joining us now with some insight into that is White House correspondent with the Las Vegas Journal Review, Deborah Saunders.

0:48.0

And Deborah, thank you so much for joining us here this morning. Tell me a little bit about Trump's executive order addressing police reform. What does it do?

0:58.0

What are the proponents say? What are the opponents say about it?

1:03.0

Well, I mean, basically the federal government only has a certain amount of power when it comes to dealing with what local police departments do.

1:12.0

And what Trump did is he basically worked on an executive order and it based tells direct departments to basically engage in community policing, which has been a direction we've seen throughout my career.

1:29.0

And then Republican Senator Tim Scott is the only African-American Republican in the Senate.

1:37.0

He has a bill, the Justice Act, that basically puts more money behind it, giving financial rewards to departments that ban chokeholds.

1:48.0

And basically, again, engages in the kind of community policing that we want to save.

1:55.0

A better record keeping for the bad apple cops don't go from one department to the next things like that.

2:01.0

I know there's been a huge criticism too, which you described as the bad apple cops who department jump around.

2:09.0

Does this open up records then so that one department can do more than just see the certain end date of an officer's previous employment?

2:18.0

That's the idea.

2:21.0

And that's the idea.

2:23.0

And, of course, Democrats are pushing for much more stringent laws.

2:28.0

And I'm sorry, but I don't think that the slogan, defund the police, is irrelevant.

2:37.0

We see what's going on in New York right now, where people are moving to take money away from police departments and handcuff police departments.

2:45.0

Make it easier for people to sue police officers personally for damages.

2:52.0

And I do believe that bad cops should be punished.

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