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Survey aims to find out how you and your agencies are handling the new pandemic-driven restrictions that have surfaced in many states
Research findings may help trainers more rapidly educate recruits to make better use-of-force decisions
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Plaintiffs’ attorneys search for reasons to argue to a judge or jury that it was the officer, not the suspect, who unnecessarily turned the encounter deadly
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