I been said that 80% of any police force should be required to live in the city limits... The reality is 80% of the police force in the vast majority of urban police departments
don't live in the city limits.
The High Costs of Outsourcing Police | East Bay Express
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/us/when-police-dont-live-in-the-city-they-serve.html?_r=0
Generally it's the same story everywhere... Police officers moved out of the big cities they work in during White Flight and continued to recruit officers from the lily white outer suburbia their children, nieces and nephews grew up in. These children are culturally illiterate of the communities they 'serve'
at best and typically indoctrinated by years of hearing daddy's/uncle's war stories about surviving another day in the big bad city around all "those crazy n*****s".
Then there's the fact that they heavily recruit ex-military personnel who are not thoroughly screened for PTSD and psychotic episodes. There's also the fact that they don't regularly check up on police officers who
develop PTSD and psychosis while being on the job...
I remember almost 8 years ago I used to have a white neighbor in an apt/townhouse complex in Oakland who moved from KCMO with his family. He was an ex cop... One day he asked my help to move some furniture onto his porch. While I helped him he talked about what made him leave KCMO. He was on the force there for more than a decade... He originally intended to retire there but couldn't do it because his head space had gotten really fukked up and he decided it wasn't the right move. Specifically he had gotten shot on the job during a drug bust, they busted the door down and a man sitting on a sofa inside the house shot him with an AK. The only thing that saved his life was that the bullets weren't hollow tips (they went straight through him without expanding), he was bedridden for months though. He was given his job back pretty much as soon as he recovered which already raised a lot of questions in my head about what kind of psycho-evaluation they gave him when he ultimately left the force because
he knew he wasn't right in the head.
Also, I was imagining what would have happened if he was on a similar bust and when they batter-rammed the door it was a grandma sitting on the sofa holding a remote or a little boy holding a PS4 controller... Would that ex cop have acted pre-emptively and emptied the clip because he wasn't gonna be the one carried out on a stretcher this time? PTSD is real and even realer when combined with latent racism
The fukking lawsuit they gonna lobby against the city should be massive fukk these pigs...
