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Philadelphia Police & Civil Rights

NPR's Eric Westervelt reports on a new study of the Philadelphia police department, which has been operating under a federal consent decree since 1996 - to address what civil rights groups call a pattern of racial discrimination in policing. The report says some officers still see crime through a racial lens.

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