Three reasonable police reforms conservatives should support after the George Floyd verdict

Published April 26, 2021 1:00pm ET



After former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd last week, the window may have reopened for criminal justice reform in Washington, D.C.

Tim Scott, the only African American Republican senator, is leading bipartisan talks with key Democratic lawmakers such as Rep. Karen Bass and Sen. Cory Booker. Republicans understandably value law and order and instinctively support the police, but polls show that officers themselves actually favor many reasonable reform proposals. With that in mind, conservative voters should support these three commonsense police reforms as a way to work with Democrats and improve our indisputably flawed criminal justice system.

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