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Will California change policing?
State lawmakers will decide the fate of 15 reform bills during a pandemic-shortened session marked by civil unrest and an economic crisis. Not all of them will make it.
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ÂżDeberĂa el Estado investigar las muertes por disparos de policĂas locales? California reconsidera su resistencia
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Should the state investigate local police shootings? California rethinks its resistance
If this state is the nation’s laboratory for progressive laws, why has it been unable to keep the police from policing themselves?