Democrats are running on the most progressive police reform agenda in modern American history

If you’re confused about where Democrats stand on policing reform, you have good reason to be.

On the one hand, protesters, activists, and professional athletes are demanding that Democrats at both a local and national level do more to address police brutality against Black Americans. On the other, several speakers at the Republican National Convention claimed that Joe Biden and Democrats are radical police abolitionists who, as Trump himself put it, will “defund police departments all across America” if given power.

So what’s the truth? The short answer is that...