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Part I - The View From the Streets

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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These are tough times for those of us in policing …

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Print publication year: 2019

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