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Cities Rocked by Past Unrest Offer Lessons in What, and What Not, to Do.
Mr. Wexler, of the Police Executive Research Forum, said: “You have to get information out quickly, you have to build inroads with the community well before something happens, and if you don’t, it’s just an uphill battle from there.” He added, “Cincinnati didn’t do that, and they paid for it.”
On the other hand, experts say, Cincinnati and some other cities in similar situations made the right call by deploying enough police officers to restore order, but limiting the amount of firepower they had.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/19/us/cities-rocked-by-past-unrest-offer-lessons-in-what-and-what-not-to-do.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LedeSum&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=lede-package&WT.nav=lede-package