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OpEdge: Three Lessons from Ferguson, Missouri
Marc Jampole
August 19, 2014
by Marc Jampole
THE AMERICAN PUBLIC is relearning many lessons from the events following the shooting of an unarmed teenager by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. The three biggest takeaways from this tragedy and its aftermath are:
- We have gone way too far in militarizing our local police forces.
- There is still rampant institutional racism built into our policing and criminal justice system.
- The police and criminal justice system does itself and the people it is supposed to protect a disservice by never admitting a mistake.