Drew Ferguson: “Well, I certainly appreciate that, but I was a little disappointed this week, in the fact that I thought we had a chance…”

“Well, I certainly appreciate that, but I was a little disappointed this week, in the fact that I thought we had a chance to make the police reform bill better. It was a genuine effort on both sides of the aisle to have this discussion. But once again, the Republican voice was left out. There were some really good amendments and ideas from my side that simply did not gain consideration on the floor, and they should have. One such example was the Cline amendment that really would have discouraged collective bargaining agreements with organizations that really kind of had poor officer disciplinary tactics, something that could have fundamentally changed how departments operate in big cities. But anyway, it is a disappointment. I hate that we did not get to do that.”