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06/04/20-Business Insider “Last night, after the curfew was imposed, we maybe only have a handful of businesses that were destroyed and looted. From this perspective, it’s effective,” Maria Haberfeld, CJRA Expert.

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06/04/20-IndyStar “I think the police would say that their reaction is legal and proper because they’re under threat. And I’m sure as a legal matter, they are correct,” Daniel Nagin, CJRA Expert.

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06/03/20-The Marshall Project “I am curious … as we reduce the census throughout all of these jails and prisons, if after this it makes us think about whether we need to go back to filling them again.” Christine Tartaro, CJRA Expert.

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06/03/20-Scripps “It doesn’t necessarily give power. It gives them the ability to contain better whatever it is that they need to contain,” Maria Haberfeld, CJRA Expert.

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06/02/20-USA Today “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness … great book to read because it talks about the systemic problem of the criminal justice system,” Lorenzo Boyd, CJRA Expert.

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06/02/20-Dallas News “I can see where they could be overly cautious trying to contain demonstrations,” Maria Haberfeld, CJRA Expert.

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06/02/20-Insider “We see protest police resorting to this strategy even though such tactics exacerbate tension between police and protesters,” Jennifer Cobbina, CJRA Expert.

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06/02/20-Insider “They help policemen “disperse people without having to be in close proximity. However, “they are not to be used in lethal encounters” and should be aimed below people’s heads.” Eugene A. Paoline, CJRA Expert.

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06/02/20-Insider “Since some police departments consider rubber bullets a “legitimate tool,” their use doesn’t count as “excessive force”,” Maria Haberfeld, CJRA Expert.

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06/02/20-Yahoo News “Officers are also getting more comfortable breaking the blue wall of silence because they understand that their own safety depends on forging a spirit of cooperation with the community,” Delores Jones-Brown, CJRA Expert.

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