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Six: Jennifer Doleac on criminal justice reform

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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Do You Think It Would Improve the Average Quality of Police?

There are 18,000 police departments in the United States. This means that there is a great deal of variation among them. The federal government can intervene and shut down some agencies if they're out of control. If you were building a system from scratch, we might imagine doing it in a way that allowed more oversight and control from a higher level. We should be going in the opposite direction right now.

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