Police in Ferguson, Missouri, used tear gas and rubber bullets to force back protesters following the killing of an unarmed African American teenager, Michael Brown, in 2014. This is an example of what kind of policing?

a. broken windows policing
b. militarized policing
c. hot-spot policing
d. CompStat policing


Answer: B

Sociology

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