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December 2014 graduation from the NYC police academy.
Theodore Hamm is chair of journalism and new media studies at St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn. He is the editor of Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn (Akashic Books, 2017).
The NYPD contends that its quality-of-life crackdowns respond to residents’ complaints. But there’s little evidence of a consistent link between 311 reports and police activity.
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