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Sheriff's police Officers Dave Lomax, from left, Marcus Bradfield, Christopher Harris and Martin Webster walk down 79th Street checking in with stores.
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Sheriff’s police Officers Dave Lomax, from left, Marcus Bradfield, Christopher Harris and Martin Webster walk down 79th Street checking in with stores.
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As police departments across the country — Chicago among them — struggle to regain public trust in the wake of high-profile stories and videos depicting police abuse and shootings of unarmed citizens, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is designing what his staff calls a holistic policing approach from a wood-chip-filled vacant lot at 79th Street and Maryland Avenue.