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In response to
"He's going in the opposite direction that the wind is blowing. Who is advising him because they need to be replaced asap. -- nm"
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Krusty
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If the program has all the right elements, it's actually a good way to combat systemic racism in law enforcement.
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The whole point of community policing is to embed law enforcement in the communities the represent. Police officers are required to live in the neighborhood, walk the streets (rather than drive around in cars), visit folks along the way by stopping in stores, schools, etc. And in a lot of programs, they are unarmed and dressed in uniforms more like postal workers than military commandos.
Portland's community policing program (from way back in the day) actually did a lot to reduce both crime and incidents of police misconduct. When law enforcement sees people as actual people -- folks they know and see regularly -- rather than "perps," they behave differently.
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