A fter the death of George Floyd last year sparked international outcry and spurred a mass protest movement, the Spokane Regional Law and Justice Council could have been perfectly situated to deliver quick reform. After all, the mission of the Law and Justice Council — an intergovernmental committee composed of local representatives from politics, law enforcement, the legal system and other community stakeholders — is to reimagine criminal justice in Spokane. Instead, some of the group's members say, the council was mired in stalemate and dysfunction. That was also the conclusion of the three Spokane authors of the Blueprint for Reform, an exhaustive list of "Smart Justice" criminal justice reform recommendations that spurred the resurrection of the Law and Justice Council in 2014.