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Dear teacher,

Yet a number of the 1,000 officers in this city of 925,000 in the heart of Silicon Valley have been worrying about their own safety of late. Since June, the police department has been using a new mobile dispatch system that includes a Windows-based touch-screen computer in every patrol car. But officers have said the system is so complex and difficult to use that it is jeopardizing their ability to do their jobs.

Q1 : "in every patrol car" modifies "computer" or "using". Which is more natural in the context? I think "computer" is better.

Q2 : What does "it" refer to? Is it just formal subject for a structure? I think it could refer to "the system" What do you think?


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1. using
2. the system
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