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  • Opinion: Stop treating police like the enemy

    Cleo Baker|Updated Jul 4, 2020

    I would like to respond to the allegations of "systemic racism" and the need for police reform. I have been a police officer for over 25 years. I have worked for two agencies during that time. I can remember only two officers that I would call racist. Both were "minority" officers. Both expressed racism toward whites. I have participated in promotion boards with my own agencies as well as those for several other agencies. The promotion boards with other agencies often had...