Little is going to change until superfluous police departments in these areas are either consolidated or simply eliminated.
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How do you reduce the likelihood that a motorist will face a deadly police encounter? Reduce the number of officers on vehicular patrol.
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But departments are run as semi-autonomous, patronage-disbursing fiefdoms and Chiefs wield political power. So this can't happen organically
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One of Christie's priorities in NJ when he assumed office was municipal consolidation; almost totally failed, due to resistance from police
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As crime had fallen nationwide, there's been no commensurate reduction in the number of officers on duty. Makes these situations inevitable.
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With almost 0 violent crime. I covered more violent crime in a week at times than the department has investigated in three years.
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Indeed -- thus the extreme departmental over-reliance on traffic stops
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and I by no means live in what would be considered high crime. Rural Mississippi.
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i bet more places have a ferguson problem than those that don't. my small city being one of them as well.
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is it legal to publish Castile's record in the name of publc information? The amount of violations he was charged w is astounding.
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Still would be an indicator of an issue. Waldo Florida style funding. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-town-infamous-for-speed-traps-disbanding-police-force/ …
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. . . as do many other small towns across the country - too many to call it 'racist'. Call it 'taxist'.
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