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13 - Confrontational Proactive Policing: Benefits, Costs, and Disparate Racial Impacts

from Part IV - Police Force and Police Violence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2019

Tamara Rice Lave
Affiliation:
University of Miami School of Law
Eric J. Miller
Affiliation:
Loyola School of Law, Los Angeles
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Summary

These are tumultuous times for policing in America. Deadly use of force by the police in large and small cities across the United States has led to protests, riots, and heated debates. Public criticism of policing, however, goes well beyond use of deadly force.

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Print publication year: 2019

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