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(82,333 posts) Sun Apr 9, 2017, 08:03 AM Apr 2017

What does it mean to be a 'pro-life' police officer?

By Adelaide Mena

Washington D.C., Apr 7, 2017 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- “Ultimately, this report is about the sanctity of all human life.”

This remarkable line opens up an international police group's flagship document on how to improve incidents of officer-involved shootings and the kinds of non-armed crisis situations that take place regularly across the United States.

“The essence of policing is the preservation of life,” Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum in Washington, D.C., told CNA.

“That's why we exist; life is very precious, and we have to remind ourselves of that.”

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-pro-life-police-officer-34490/

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