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Colin Allred: “They had to reverse that because they had to admit that they…”

Featuring: Colin Allred, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Texas

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Inside Texas Politics | Full interview on the Democratic Senate runoff with Colin Allred

Published | Video Starts at 07:38

And we've already seen it also in the fact that they've reduced the training time for the 12,000 new agents that they've hired from five months to six weeks. And just recently, They had to reverse that because they had to admit that they were putting untrained people on the streets. and then sending them into communities to terrorize them. Law enforcement is about legitimacy, and legitimacy comes from the belief that what you're doing is in the interest of the broader community and that folks can trust you. (07:38–07:44)

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Asserts that the agency reversed the reduced training time due to admitting untrained people were being deployed.

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