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When your police partner makes racist comments about your community

I'm a Black officer in a predominantly white department and yesterday my partner made a joke about 'those people' not knowing he was talking about my own community.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The profound isolation of being asked to enforce systems while belonging to the communities most harmed by them.

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“Where Are You with Policing across cultures?”

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