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476. What Are the Police for, Anyway?

Freakonomics Radio

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Policing as Philanthropy

Alex murray, from the met poli and the society of evidence based policing. "Our purpose is to serve citizens," he says. The hardest part of my job is visiting someone and telling them that their partners just died in a car accident,. i would say, less victims.

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