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"Advocates say that not using the name and pronoun a person was known by can slow down an investigation during its most critical hours. People who knew the victim or who saw them in the hours before they were murdered might only have known them by their preferred name and gender.

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"Police at the handful of agencies that routinely use victims' preferred names and pronouns say not doing so can damage the agency's relationship with the transgender community, or alienate friends and family.

"'That might lose the cooperation of the friends and family -- the people we need to solve the case,' said Detective Orlando Martinez of the Los Angeles Police Department.

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"'When we go out to the community and talk about somebody, we have to identify them by the way they identified,' [Deputy Chief Thomas Castro of the Dallas police] said, adding that it wouldn't do the department any good to use a name that nobody knew her by."

-- from "Deadnamed", by Lucas Waldron and Ken Schwencke, 2018-08-10