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Cop Brutality NPR's Eric Westervelt reports that the federal government is getting increasingly involved in tracking and investigating police brutality and corruption at a local level. While this might make citizens concerned with police brutality feel like these problems are finally being addressed, some local police departments fear that as the federal government puts local police under a microscope, officers will be hampered in doing their jobs.

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Cop Brutality

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Cop Brutality

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NPR's Eric Westervelt reports that the federal government is getting increasingly involved in tracking and investigating police brutality and corruption at a local level. While this might make citizens concerned with police brutality feel like these problems are finally being addressed, some local police departments fear that as the federal government puts local police under a microscope, officers will be hampered in doing their jobs.