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College-educated cops enforce the law more aggressively

  • Written by Richard Wright, Regents' Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
College-educated cops enforce the law more aggressivelySome police reform efforts encourage stations to hire more educated officers.vchal/shutterstock.com

In the wake of controversial and widely publicized incidents involving the use of deadly force by the police against racial and ethnic minorities, President Obama appointed the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing in 2015 to propose...

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