With Federal Progress Slow, Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump Takes On Police Reform Case by Case

... Crump and Romanucci said that while progress in federal police reform has been slow, they’ve taken another approach to police reform across the country.

“We know that the federal system isn’t fixing the policing issues,” Romanucci said. “So we are taking it upon ourselves. We’re putting it on our shoulders to go from state to state. Anybody that will listen to us to speak, to actually preach the word of why this is so important. So if we can’t fix the problem on a federal level, we’re gonna try state by state, county by county, city by city.”

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