In the new issue on stands Thursday, someone gave Colin an internal TPD report on the use of force, so he took a look and found that its use is up 24% under Chief Dugan (pepper spray deployment is up 223%)—and that’s not even counting data from recent protests.…

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The numbers represent only a fraction of the use of force incidents reported in the Tampa Bay area since the beginning of the recent protests.

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