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    ‘Beyond Crime Stats and Handcuffs’

    Nov 01, 2019 2 minutes
    —MICHAEL BARAJAS

    NE NIGHT THIS SUMMER, CHANGA HIGGINS FOUND himself actively avoiding state police in his South Dallas neighborhood. In the preceding weeks, Higgins says, he’d already been pulled over twice by Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers deployed to help fight crime in the area, so a mix of fear and frustration

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