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“Incarceration rates may reach a certain tipping point, which…actually contribute to the social conditions that lead to, rather than control, crime… Enforcement-heavy, arrest-driven policing will continue to reinforce the community’s belief in police illegitimacy."

Racial Reconciliation, Truth-Telling, and Police Legitimacy
U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services
(ISBN: 9781932582383), August
2012
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