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Experts Agree: Police Public Relations Consistently Mislead the Public

Loaded on Oct. 15, 2021 by Jayson Hawkins published in Criminal Legal News November, 2021, page 43
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Police Bias. Location: United States of America.

by Jayson Hawkins

Police officers have, for much of American history, had a remarkable hold on public trust. That hold, however, has loosened in recent years as the ubiquity of cameras has grown and more police misconduct is caught on video. Over the last decade, repeated incidents of police using ...

 

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