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In hundreds of police departments across the country, the percentage of whites on the force is more than 30 percentage points higher than in the communities they serve, according to an analysis of a government survey of police departments... Experts say that diversity in the police force increases a department’s credibility with its community. Even if #police #officers of whatever race enforce the law in relatively the same way, there is a huge image problem with a department that is so out of sync with the racial composition of the local population, said Ronald Weitzer, a sociologist at The George Washington University. Via The New York Times
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 16:00:01 +0000

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