Can police learn to de-escalate?

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🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Police officers around the country are fielding an increasing number of mental-health calls. Hannah Dreier documents what it’s been like for one officer who recently completed his department’s de-escalation training. And, Michelle Boorstein reports on how gospel choirs are adapting to the pandemic’s socially distanced reality.

Converging in a tense section of Huntsville: A White police officer fresh from de-escalation training, a troubled Black woman with a gun, and a crowd with cellphones ready to record.

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0:33.7	It's Thursday, July 30th.
0:38.1	Today, the story of a police officer
0:40.5	being asked to do his job differently
0:43.5	and how churchquires are weathering the pandemic.
0:51.0	It's the difference between power and influence.
0:55.7	And probably 90% of what you need to do
0:58.9	is a police officer involves power.
1:01.7	It is empowered, it is a presence.
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