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Study Finds That Black Americans Want Both Police Presence and Reform: Looking Beyond the Headlines

Loaded on Oct. 1, 2024 by Jo Ellen Nott published in Criminal Legal News October, 2024, page 36
Filed under: Criminal justice system reform, Police, Racial Profiling. Location: United States of America.

by Jo Ellen Nott

A new study, “On the Robustness of Black Americans’ Support for the Police: Evidence from a National Experiment” published in the May-June 2024 issue of the Journal of Criminal Justice, challenges the dominant narrative that Black Americans want less policing.

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