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“When I started, Black folks I’d speak to in Minneapolis seemed surprised that I’d been hired,” Chief Green said when I spoke with him recently. “They told me they and most people they knew avoided driving through Golden Valley.”

Members of the overwhelmingly white police force responded to both hires by quitting — in droves.

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[–] ConsciousCode 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I love it, racist cops demonstrate that they're worse than useless. Though it could also be one of those weird statistical things, like less police = less patrolling = less crimes detected rather than committed aka surveillance/selection bias.

[–] Lowbird 4 points 2 years ago

On the other hand that weird statistical thing can and often does include "less crimes made up" aka "detected" because the cops are evaluated by quotas.