RENTON, Wash. -- Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin said Monday that he and the "Building Bridges" task force he formed are making progress in their efforts to get attorneys general to review training policies for law enforcement.
"The concrete next step is putting together a plan where we can give to the attorney generals that we meet with and basically say, 'Here, this is from the research we've done, the things that we have heard, listened to, what we've learned -- we think this is a rational approach to things,' " Baldwin said. "Not to say they haven't already done that. I feel like we've got to do something."
Last month, during a press conference, Baldwin demanded that attorneys general from all 50 states review their training policies for police. He formed a task force to meet with political leaders and members of law enforcement.
Baldwin and other members of the Seahawks organization met with police at the team facility last week.
"What we're focused on right now is building a model that will work here," Baldwin said. "We have a lot of data that's coming in, a lot of data that we're being given from different sources in terms of the research that we're trying to put together, and it's very compelling. So we're trying to build that here, utilize that as a tool, as a model here and then be able to present that to the other 49 states."
Baldwin said he also has had a conversation with Washington state attorney general Bob Ferguson.
"All these meetings are for us to get information," Baldwin said. "I don't want to share who it was with or what it was about, but it was a learning experience. The reason why I don't want to share what it was about is because it's not about being political. We're just trying to learn."
"We've kind of painted people in a corner to where we're kind of calling them out and making sure they hold themselves accountable to the citizens that they represent. The people in our state have been great, but obviously we're trying to make this a nationwide thing. It's been good in the fact that it's generated conversations with people we normally wouldn't converse with."