November 1st, 2011 at 9:32PM
What we see in many places is that while you can bring crime down by occupying the neighborhood and stopping everybody, what you do in the process is lose that neighborhood. … You fuel the idea that the police are an occupying, inimical force in the neighborhood. You play into these real and toxic racial memories about what came before civil rights. And you can make it work in many places, but you can’t stop. You can’t ever say, ‘We’ve won. Things are good. Things are stable,’ because you have driven them into hiding. —

David M. Kennedy, on programs that target specific geographic areas through car and pedestrian stops in order to stop crime.  (via nprfreshair)

Listening to this ep of Fresh Air, seems interesting for people who have never seen The Wire. J/K! It’s actually an interesting alternative to that show’s nihilism.

(via nprfreshair)
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  5. tanvicious said: it’s interesting, I did a police ride-along in DC and the officer said if he could change one thing about his job it would be this.. he’d been on the force for 20 years
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