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What colleges and universities can do to improve police-community relations

  • Written by Brian N. Williams, Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Virginia
imageUriah Davis, left, a graduate student at Oklahoma State University, spoke to Police Chief Jeff Watts outside the Stillwater Police Department in Stillwater, Oklahoma, on June 3, 2020.AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki

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