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As a champion of criminal justice reform, Sen. Chuck Grassley has set aside partisan politics to make our justice system better. Recently, Grassley’s spokesperson said that the senator was open to supporting the Equal Act, bipartisan legislation eliminating the unjust federal sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine.
The senator’s willingness to take up sentencing reform is not new. Just months before the landmark First Step Act passed, I met with him in his D.C. office. At the time, he was urging the bill to be amended with significant sentencing reforms, and meeting with resistance, but he encouraged me with his faith. Sure enough, those changes made it into the bill just in time for the First Step Act to become law.
T.Rowe Price Group has announced that Ken Brooks, senior institutional business development leader,
will retire on June 4.
Brooks helped grow T. Rowe Price’s U.S. institutional business, which now accounts for more than $200 billion of the firm’s assets under management (AUM). Operating out of San Francisco, he anchored the firm’s institutional sales efforts on the West Coast and partnered with colleagues nationwide to expand the business.
Brooks has also played an active role in the firm’s diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives as a founding member of the firm’s Ethnic Diversity Roundtable and its successor business resource group, MOSAIC.
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When a Minneapolis jury returned a guilty verdict on all three charges against former police officer Derek Chauvin for killing Mr. George Floyd, most of America breathed a sigh of relief. The senseless murder of Floyd at the hands of police last year resulted in protests and riots worldwide calling for justice.
Although Chauvin was the defendant in the courtroom, in many people’s minds, America’s justice system was on trial, too. The law enforcement community universally condemned the officer’s actions involved in Floyd’s death that day.
Still, without a conviction, the rhetoric would mean very little to the community, especially Black people. George Floyd’s murder was one time the cops weren’t exempt from the law; there was no qualified immunity. But what does it mean for the future of police reform?