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Reducing violence and increasing safety requires building trust between the police and marginalized communities, a conference on violence prevention was told Wednesday

In order to build trust between communities of color and the police, law enforcement’s historical legacy of oppressing people of color, and its modern manifestations, need to be acknowledged and changed, said Myesha Braden, director of the Criminal Justice Project of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

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