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Teaching Tolerance to NYPD Recruits with "Anne & Emmett"

Can a piece of theater teach New York City police recruits about tolerance and racism? The NYPD has added “Anne & Emmett,” a one-act play which imagines a conversation between Anne Frank and Emmett Till, to its recruit training this fall. MetroFocus host Jack Ford gets an inside look with playwright Janet Langhart Cohen and her husband and co-producer, former Defense Secretary William S. Cohen.