Kim Reynolds says she hopes her criminal justice bill will bring people together but critics abound Stephen Gruber-Miller and Ian Richardson, Des Moines Register
Gov. Reynolds will introduce a bill to protect law enforcement and ban racial profiling
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The Republican governor s follow-up proposal, released on Tuesday, is not receiving that universal acclaim.
Republicans are enthusiastic about parts of the bill, including increased penalties for assaulting police officers and cutting off state funding for cities that cut their police budgets. Meanwhile, some Democrats and civil rights groups, which have pushed for adding a ban on racial profiling in state law, are dismayed to see that measure combined with beefed up criminal penalties and punishment for cities.