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Yet another fatal police shooting of a Black man. A month later, where's the video?

Mar 21, 2023 View Original Article
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    -2% Center

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  • Policy Leaning

    -74% Very Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    26% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Law enforcement needs to prioritize transparency, quickly assessing what is known and proactively communicating those facts to the media and community.
51% : Trust between law enforcement and communities is critical to public safety.
45% : As a leader who has worked in both crisis communications and criminal justice, my advice to police leadership in these situations is to communicate quickly, transparently and accurately to avoid deteriorating police-community relations.
45% : But Davis' transparency is an example of what can be done to limit distrust of law enforcement leaders and quell anger, and it has likely played a role in the peaceful protests that followed.
43% : While good communication alone will not be enough to rebuild faith in our justice system, poor communication from law enforcement sows distrust, which harms public safety.
41% : We must meet in the 'messy middle'Davis did, however, make it a point to discuss Johnson during that first briefing, noting that "his encounters with local law enforcement in the national capital region span many years, and it's a violent criminal history."
39% : The mistakes in Uvalde have no doubt done tremendous damage to the reputation of law enforcement, sowing distrust nationally.
36% : We now know that much of that information was false - from details on the gunman, who killed 19 students and two teachers, to the catastrophic delays in response from law enforcement.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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