Do Low-Level Offenses Provoke Police Shootings?

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Newshour Weekend special correspondent Chris Bury reports on new efforts in the Twin Cities of Minnesota to change how and when police interact with residents. In almost an opposite theory to what’s been called “Broken Windows” policing, there is an organized move to eliminate many low-level offenses. This approach raises the question: Would many of the police shootings of young men of color happen, if they were never pulled over or stopped in the first place?

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