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Jeanne Shaheen: “One police chief described it to me this way, he said, when we have someone shooting up at 2 o'clock in the afternoon in…”

On the recordFebruary 25, 2015
One police chief described it to me this way, he said, when we have someone shooting up at 2 o'clock in the afternoon in the parking lot of Target in Bedford, which is a very upscale community, we know we have a problem.
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Jeanne Shaheen
Democratic · New Hampshire

Editor's note · Context

Shaheen shares a police chief's observation about heroin use in upscale communities.

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