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Over the past year, as employees of the scandal-plagued Orange county sheriff's department received their official use-of-force training, independent investigators from the county were sitting in.
Their goal was to identify problems that might lead to unnecessary killings or headline-grabbing cases of law enforcement violence. And, as a new report documents, they found plenty.
Related: Disturbing review of California sheriff's department finds serious abuses
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