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Learning on The Job: cops contend with a changed law-enforcement landscape

BY RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 5/16/25

Calls to defund, violence in the street, prosecutions, record numbers of retirements and quits, recruitment issues, lingering questions about justice, enforcement and resources. 

Police departments — and cops — nationwide have contended with those issues since the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin five years ago this month and the subsequent unrest and riots that followed. As a result, the law enforcement landscape — and the public’s perception of policing — has changed, in some ways profoundly, according to panelists who took part in a discussion titled “Perceptions of Policing in America” Monday hosted by Council on Criminal Justice.

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