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Want to reform America's police? Look to firefighters

  • Written by Roscoe Scarborough, Assistant Professor of Sociology, College of Coastal Georgia
An institution's culture can affect the behavior of individual participants.Anthony Montoya/Shutterstock.com

Freddie Gray. Eric Garner. Michael Brown.

The deaths of black youth and men at the hands of police have sparked a nationwide conversation on discriminatory policing practices.

Media and the public often look to psychological explanations for d...

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