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Events • October 12, 2016 

# Fall Fables & Fallacies: The Truth about Policing in America 

Recent events in Oklahoma and North Carolina continue to draw the nation’s attention to the combustible relationship between police and the communities they serve. Yet despite the national focus, important facts are getting blurred as partisans on both sides square off in an increasingly divisive national debate.

Join our panel of Cato scholars to sort out and clarify a broad range of issues, including pretextual stops, police militarization, the use of body cameras and more.

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