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“I think a lot of this has to do with the national narrative about cops,” said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum. “It — to be honest — has not been favorable.”
The NAACP and others call the move a form of voter suppression, since odd-year elections have lower turnout. Mayor Rick West said it's about getting more attention for local races.
worse it could ged. "early" this friday, august 5th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs >> and good friday morning. nice to have you with us. i'm erica hill. >> i'm jeff glor in for chris wragge. happy friday. >> that may be the only thing about it that's happy, it's friday. so many people concerned about this. there are two sets of numbers, the market meltdown from yesterday, the dow jones loss wiped out all of the gains so far for 2011. >> a ybs news/"new york times" poll shows frustration and anger with the economy and our leaders in washington. >> we begin with a series of reports on...