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‘Stop testing NBA players’: Police chief urges Trump officials to ‘start’ testing first responders NewsColony Police Chief Bill Brooks, of Norwood, Massachusetts, reportedly expressed understandable concern on the call with officials from the White House and Homeland Security, which was set up by the International Association of Chiefs of Police. He noted, “I need the police department to be operational and healthy 60 days from now.” Basically: People becoming ill is obviously worrisome on an individual level, but also a structural one. If the virus spreads through a whole department, police forces may be facing the same sort of shortage health care workers are worried about. A number of officers are already self-quarantining out of precaution; a smart move, but when there are only so many people in a department, it raises reasonable concerns for the future. Why are police, among other first responders  like EMTs or firefighters, a...