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How to protect family from neighborhood racial profiling

My neighbor called the police on my teenage nephew for walking through our own neighborhood and I'm shaking with rage and helplessness.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Residential safety becomes compromised when racial bias transforms normal activities into perceived threats requiring police intervention.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Racial identity — lived experience?”

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