Violent crime hits the poor and disadvantaged the hardest. It's a big factor holding back mobility in America!https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/08/violent-crimes-toll-on-economic-mobility/537549/ …
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well I mean... I'm radical so to me the solution is not to abandon hiring local cops but to change the standards. not lower, but change.
On the more palatable end of the spectrum, full and retroactive legalization of weed would make a lot of potentially-great cops eligible.
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On the more radical end, you could have prison education programs actually geared towards getting ex-offenders into law enforcement.
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which of course would be super hard but in boston they're having some success focusing on getting "core influencers" into college...
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