Agency Strategies to Prevent and Reduce Police Bias Include Screening

question 36

Essay

Agency strategies to prevent and reduce police bias include screening during recruitment, in-service training, and most recently the use of body-worn cameras. Provide an argument to support and an argument opposing the implementation of one of these strategies into contemporary policing.

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