It is excruciating to watch Jack Campbell twist slowly in the wind, trying to survive in his job without admitting he, or the good-old-boy system he supports, did anything wrong. "We failed the community," he said, but didn't say how. He asked for forgiveness but didn't say for what. There are paths to reform already proposed. The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, shelved by Congress in 2021, would have created a nationwide police misconduct registry to prevent problem officers from bouncing from one law enforcement job to another without accountability. Provisions of the Illinois SAFE-T Act, which haven't been implemented, allow for "discretionary decertification" of problem officers by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board. If Jack Campbell, small-town Republican sheriff from Illinois, were to become a serious advocate of specific police reforms, he could become a nationally recognized champion of justice. If he continues to stonewall, his career will soon be over. – Fletcher Farrar, editor