Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1.Estimating the number of LGBTQ police officers is difficult, given the stigmatization that continues to be attached to this identification.
2.The police often used excessive force against demonstrators during the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
3.The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed discriminatory
4.Canine officers have always been received positively by the public.
5.Since the 1980s, there has been a call for police to act less like social workers and to focus more on crime control.


1.true
2.true
3.true
4.false
5.false

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