Chesney-Lind, Meda

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Many videos “contradict official claims… call[ing] into question the trope of police officers as guardian-warriors maintaining the ‘thin blue line’ between a vulnerable public and dangerous predators. Without video… [the] public may assume [victims]… are criminals."

“A female offender’s race/ethnicity was the strongest predictor of a [news] story’s overall tone… Stories about white female offenders were more likely to have neutral or favorable tones than stories about minority female offenders."