"The job is difficult enough. People sign up knowing the risks and the danger with the job, but they want to know that if they have to use force, they'll be backed up," William Johnson, executive officer and general counsel for the National Association of Police Organizations, a national coalition of police unions, said last week.
Tim Scott: Democrats back down on qualified immunity in policing-bill talks
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William Johnson, the executive officer and general counsel of the National Association of Police Organizations, a coalition of police unions, said Wednesday that he hadn’t heard that the sides were as close as Mr. Scott indicated.
Tim Scott says main differences in policing reform bill worked out
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