Expert: Instability causes turmoil in police department

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With the forced resignation of Police Commissioner Leonard Hamm, the Baltimore Police Department continues to be defined by turmoil, a local criminologist says.

A destructive pattern of politicized policing and a flawed command structure may continue to thwart the crime-fighting efforts of a department that has gone through eight police commissioners ? counting interim commissioners ? since 1999, experts said.

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