The police reforms that are stalled in the US Senate are so basic, so necessary and so modest that it’s embarrassing they are not already law.
Much of what’s in the house-passed George Floyd Justice in Policing Act (https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7120/text) has already been adopted by police in Los Angeles and elsewhere. Much of the rest has been stuck in the discussion phase for decades, having been proposed long ago by various commissions pulled together to study why black people, especially, are so angry at police tactics that leave so many of them dead...
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