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Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau says she thinks there may be some of what law enforcement officials call the '

Some in the law enforcement community say they believe police across the country may be acting more cautiously and enforcing the law less stringently in the wake of questions raised by the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Missouri last year. 

The Jamar Clark shooting, protests

, in the wake of the protests over the fatal police shooting of Jamar Clark in Minneapolis last month.

"I have no doubt that officers at times question things, and are a little bit more hesitant, certainly on some lower level, and some stops that maybe that they would normally do, but they question, what is this going to mean? And I don't want that to happen," she said. "I don't know to what level, but I would assume that given everything that's occurred that there has to be some fear factor."

Harteau also said that her officers, and particularly officers of color, were unfairly subject to verbal abuse and violence in the wake of the Clark shooting last month.

Law enforcement officials say they believe police across the country may be acting more cautiously and enforcing the law less stringently in the wake of questions raised by the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Missouri last year.

When Jamar Clark was fatally shot by Minneapolis police in November, the incident touched off nearly three weeks of protests. These protests included a freeway shut-down, a weeks-long vigil outside the 4th Precinct police station in north Minneapolis, and multiple rallies at city hall.


MPR News host Tom Weber will speak with Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau about the unrest and how the police department will move forward from here.

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