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“The [DOJ] reports demonstrate that officers frequently subjected [African Americans] to verbal abuse… Investigators found that officers' use of racially-charged language and crude jokes created a culture where blacks were dehumanized."

Federal Investigations of Police Misconduct: A Multi-City Comparison
Crime, Law and Social Change
Vol. 71 Issue 5, pp. 461–482,
2019
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