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Oct 2021
23m 4s

The Model City, Part 2: Promises

LOUISVILLE PUBLIC MEDIA
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In 2016, the police chief laid out his vision: Louisville was going to become the kind of place where everyone across the city, no matter what neighborhood they lived in, would get the same treatment from the police — policing that’s about your protection, and safety. But that’s not what happened.

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