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“Although routinely called upon as a solution to strained police-minority community relationships, increasing minority representation in police departments does not appear to be related to decreased assaults on police… unlikely to address the contextual problems."
Does Minority Representation in Police Agencies Reduce Assaults on the Police?
American Journal of Criminal Justice
Vol. 41 Issue 3, pp. 402–423,
2016
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