How Crime Fighting and Criminal Justice Reform Go Hand in Hand

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : It's a tough time for law enforcement.
49% : One thing that doesn't help is Republican Party's double standard on law and order: on the one hand making the tough-on-crime, back-the-blue argument, on the other explaining away the violence of an attack on, among other things, law enforcement, at the U.S, Capitol on January 6. "
47% : Time and again, Bratton returns to the idea that crime fighting and criminal justice reform can go hand in hand.
44% : Last year, major cities across the country slashed police budgets.
44% : He also acknowledges that even today, and even in cities like New York and Washington, D.C., where the police rank-and-file is majority minority, law enforcement often fails to treat citizens in a way that is "constitutional, compassionate, and consistent."
39% : He argues that there need not be a tradeoff between law and order and criminal justice reform.

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