Top police organizations push back on GOP Sen. Tim Scott's attack on Democrats for why police reform talks broke down
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Two major policing organizations -- the Fraternal Order of Police and the International Association of Chiefs of Police -- are disputing Republican Sen. Tim Scott's account of how negotiations over a policing overhaul plan broke down last week.
"Despite some media reports, at no point did any legislative draft propose 'defunding the police,' " according to a joint statement from the two groups. "In fact, the legislation specifically provided additional funding to assist law enforcement agencies in training, agency accreditation, and data collection initiatives."
Scott said last week that he was "not going to be part of defunding the police" after bipartisan negotiations fell apart, and said that disagreement was over tying grant money to cooperating with the reform efforts.
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