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Alex Chadwick Talks With James Fyfe, A Criminologist At Temple University

and a former police officer, about the change in ammunition used by police. The New York City Police Department wants to make the switch to hollowpoint bullets...they leave wider, but less deep wounds than normal bullets. Fyfe says most police departments in major cities long ago switched to the more powerful bullets.

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