Despite recent gains in visibility, more trans people were killed in 2016 than in any other year on record and a long-standing lack of trust in the police means many other crimes in the LGBT community go unreported. But a few pioneering transgender police officers, and their departments, are helping to bridge that divide. VICE News Tonight correspondent Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani went to Seattle to meet the first openly trans cop on the city’s force– Tori Newburn. Watch the VICE News Tonight exclusive above.
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