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Aug 2021
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Cover Story: Target's Cozy Police Legacy

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This week's Cover Story for Bloomberg Businessweek:

"Target’s Cozy Police Legacy Leaves Black Americans Wary" written by Peter Waldman and Lauren Etter.

Read by Bloomberg's Mark Leydorf.

For years, America’s most upbeat retailer funded surveillance to make inner cities safe—for some. Now it’s trying to convince people of color that it’s changed.

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