We're five weeks from electing a new mayor of Boston. This week, "The Scrum" - WGBH News' ongoing conversation about politics in Boston and across Massachusetts - looked at some of the polls in the Boston mayoral race, and how candidates John Connolly and Marty Walsh have been handling (or mishandling) controversial issues like the Boston Police Patrolmen Association's arbitration award.

WGBH News' political analysts David Bernstein and Peter Kadzis joined WGBH reporter Adam Reilly in the latest edition of "The Scrum."