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Melvin Watt: I think it was the least successful, biggest abomination of any program that I have observed in our local communities.

On the recordJuly 18, 2012
I think it was the least successful, biggest abomination of any program that I have observed in our local communities.
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Melvin Watt
North Carolina

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Criticism of the 287(g) program's impact on local law enforcement.

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