Perceived tensions between blacks, police have grown; officers more worried about safety and more reluctant to use appropriate force

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January 6, 2017

4. Police, fatal encounters and ensuing protests

Perceived tensions between blacks, police have grown; officers more worried about safety and more reluctant to use appropriate force

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4. Police, fatal encounters and ensuing protests
Large departments more likely to have moved to modify use-of-force policies or procedures
High-profile incidents have disproportionately affected policing in larger departments
Regardless of race, officers say their colleagues are now more reluctant to stop and question suspicious people
Most officers say protests mainly motivated by bias toward police
Most white, Latino officers say fatal encounters between blacks and police are isolated incidents; majority of black officers disagree
Officers say policing is harder now as a result of incidents
Black and white officers disagree over extent to which protests are motivated by desire to hold police accountable

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