GOP spokesman Jim Jordan says there are “not enough good people” aspiring to become police officers because of the “humiliation” of law enforcement.

  • Rep. Jim Jordan said “not good enough people” want to be cops because of attacks on law enforcement.
  • On NBC’s Meet the Press, an Ohio Republican denounced the death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis.
  • Asked about efforts to reform the federal police, Jordan said it’s best to leave it at the state and local levels.

Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio said Sunday there are “not enough good people” aspiring to become police officers because of the fallout from the “defend the police” movement, which he accuses of vilifying law enforcement officers across the country.

Jordan, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, commented on NBC’s Meet the Press when discussing the death of Tyre Nichols, who was brutally beaten by five police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, earlier this month.

“We don’t get enough good people filing complaints because of the humiliation of police officers. he said on NBC News.

“There has been an attack on law enforcement and you are not getting the best of the best,” he added.

The officers involved in the Nichols case – Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Justin Smith, Emmitt Martin III and Desmond Mills Jr. – were fired and charged with second-degree murder, misdemeanors in office, aggravated kidnapping, official harassment and aggravated assault .

Jordan spoke out against the aforementioned officers, stating that they did not value life, but questioned whether any particular law could have prevented this particular attack and subsequent death.

“Well, I don’t know if there is any law that can stop the evil that we have seen – it’s just hard to watch. I am struck by the disrespect for human life,” he said.

“These five had no respect for life,” he continued. “And again, I don’t think these five guys represent the vast, vast majority of law enforcement. But I don’t know if there is anything you can do to stop the evil that we saw in this video.”

When Jordan was asked if he would ban chokeholds — which was part of the George Floyd Police Justice Act of 2021 — he instead said that certain rules should remain outside the federal government’s purview.

“If we can incentivize certain things, I still think you want to keep that state and local,” he said. “This is a law enforcement problem. You’re starting to involve the federal government in databases and federal licensing.”

He added that it might not be profitable for Congress to interfere with some policing laws “because the federal government gets screwed up so many times.”

The George Floyd Police Justice Act was named after George Floyd, a black man who died while in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in May 2020. His death sparked a wave of racial reconciliation efforts in the US and around the world. and spurred Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill into long-awaited police reforms.

In March 2021, the then Democrat-controlled House of Representatives passed legislation.

However, the bill languished in the Senate as the Republicans were opposed to the bill; Bipartisan talks to move the law failed later in 2021.

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