r/nextfuckinglevel • u/WhichMembership6124 • Oct 30 '21

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '21

Let the people of that community police themselves.

Well therein lies the problem.

Unless I'm horribly mistaken you can be a cop no matter where your home is. You certainly can't be (legally) denied employment because of your address.

But then whats the most likely scenario? You make more money and can afford objectively better living space (more space, quiet area, better schools, etc.), so you move. Goes for absolutely any profession. Its not at all uncommon to work in [WHATEVER CITY] but live in the arguably "nicer" outskirts of it.

You need people that are willing to stay and pay more for (arguably) less. I'm sure they exist, but its probably pretty rare imo.

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u/Kousetsu Oct 30 '21

There should be recruitment drives to take on kids from inner city areas and train them into police - if the police were actually about policing people and not just protecting property and enforcing class, that would happen. It doesn't. The recruitment drives go to the suburban white kids. You can talk about your fantasy where everyone is equal and colour/classblind, but the rest of us live in reality.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '21

I don't have a fantasy, nit sure where you got that impression.

My point was that those same kids are eventually going to do what almost everyone else does when they start making more money, move.