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You must be talking from your white privilege. It's a common known fact that crime-ridden, mostly minority neighborhoods have a complete dearth of services suc
by pfarnsworth 9y ago
You must be talking from your white privilege.
It's a common known fact that crime-ridden, mostly minority neighborhoods have a complete dearth of services such as police, firefighters, and ambulance. Even back in the 80s, Public Enemy released a song called "911 is a Joke" because if you called 911 from a black neighborhood, they won't respond.
It's routinely known that cops will rather stay in rich neighborhoods and let the poorer neighborhoods fester. This happened during the LA riots where Koreantown burned because most of the cops went to Beverly Hill, etc, to protect the rich people.
I saw this first hand in Detroit about 8 years ago. I was driving through a bad neighborhood in Detroit with my friend, and we entered the neighborhood of Grosse Point, a rich area. Cops followed us until we left, which is their way of saying "you don't belong here". Meanwhile, among the burnt down houses and broken windows of Detroit proper, you couldn't see a single cop.