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As Officers Face Heated Words, Their Tactics Vary

• NY Times
There is nothing in the equipment room to give an officer thicker skin.

That tool — as vital to an officer’s safety and the public’s as anything clipped to his belt — is developed in training, and its strength differs from one officer to the next.

The issue of tolerance, in fact, lies at the heart of the dispute surrounding the arrest of the Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. in Cambridge, Mass.

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“The ‘uppity Negro,’ ” he said.