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A Scorecard for Police Departments

Here’s a new way to help people evaluate the performance of the law-enforcement agencies that patrol their communities.
Source: Lucy Nicholson / Reuters

As the Black Lives Matter movement rose to national prominence in 2015, a small group associated with the push to end unnecessary police killings suggested 10 specific reforms that every police agency ought to adopt, hoping to inspire informed, constructive activism in communities across the country.

On Wednesday, Campaign Zero launched a new initiative grounded

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