Statistics show LBPD seriously injures people at high rate, but police say database is flawed

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July 3, 2020
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Long Beach Post
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“I don’t think that most officers are out there saying, ‘I think I’m going to pull over that Black person because I’m racist and I want to hassle them,’ ” she said. But police agencies must find ways to fight hidden biases that lead officers and others to associate skin color with criminality, she said.

“All White people have been socialized in this culture,” Luban said.

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