How Police Use-of-Force Standards Are Changing

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The United States has 18,000 police departments, all entitled to use deadly force — but without any national standard on when to use it — or why. Recent shootings of unarmed suspects have police chiefs making policy changes that aren't going down well with the rank and file. We hear more about a debate that's raging from Baltimore to San Francisco.

The United States has 18,000 police departments, all entitled to use deadly force — but without any national standard on when to use it — or why. Recent shootings of unarmed suspects have police chiefs making policy changes that aren't going down well with the rank and file. We hear more about a debate that's raging from Baltimore to San Francisco.

Later on the program, the late Nancy Reagan and feminism.

Photo: Tony Webster

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Credits

Host:

Warren Olney

Producers:

Paul von Zielbauer, Christine Detz, Sáša Woodruff