Every statistic I've ever seen show that between 80 and 85 % of all urban
police officers reside in the suburbs. I do not know how that would shake
out with regard to greater incidents of violence and brutality.
My belief is that, because it's such a closed society or subculture, that
the peer preservation system rules, and that the blue curtain transcends
residence when the numbers of nonresidents is as high as all that.
I do know that almost all the major, visible thumpers - the ones who have
actually been prosecuted - not only live outside the community, they often
live outside the Metro Areas. This was certainly true in Detroit, in New
York, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. I think it's endemic to the entire urban
law enforcement community.
Evidence shows, especially in those cities where residency has been an issue
and officers fake it by renting apartments in the city, but actually live
elsewhere, that large groups of officers live in very contiguous
circumstances. In Minnesota, I believe you find pockets of cops in
near-collectives in Circle Pines, Forest Lake, Bethel, St. Francis, Elk
River and even up in Mora, Princeton and Milaca. For St. Paul, it's
Maplewood, Oakdale, Stillwater, Oak Park heights and even Hudson.
Andy Driscoll
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> From: "Eva Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:11:21 -0600
> To: "Sen.Linda Higgins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Mpls] We are the police
>
>> Employees chafed under this new rule. The city didn't offer the
>> right kind of housing or size of lots and the crime was too bad
>> and so on and so on and so. The police really worked the
>> suburban legislators and the personal-freedom people and got
>> the law repealed.
> I remember all this..... The question I have, is there any data that
> relates where the police live, and abuse complaints. That is, is there any
> evidence that suburban Minneapolis Police officers are more likely to be
> thumpers than home grown cops?
>
> Eva
> Eva Young
> Central
>
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