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Steven Rich
@datab.ae

broadly speaking, most folks who write about policing in America after not being steeped in the subject matter do not write about it well. this is not an exception to that rule.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com

“In recent years, many Americans have decided that their country’s problem was that it had too many police officers, when in fact its problem was that it had too few,” Malcolm Gladwell writes:

bit.lyAmerica Has a Police ShortageMany Americans have decided that their country’s problem is that it has too many police officers. In fact, it has too few.

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Steven Rich
@datab.ae

this is probably a rule for most subjects but as someone who has reported on policing for over a decade at this point, i actually feel like i can comment on this one.