Following three decades of sectarian violence, Northern Ireland dismantled its repressive and mostly Protestant police force in 2001. The idea was to include more Catholics and to make the police more accountable to all of the people they serve. The World’s host Marco Werman speaks with Duncan Morrow, a professor at Ulster University in Belfast, about what was accomplished by 20 years of police reform in Northern Ireland, and whether that could serve as a model for change in a deeply divided United States.
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