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There is a wonderful documentary "Flint Town" (currently on NetFlix) that follows the police department of Flint, MI, a town that is struggling. At one point,
by andyv 8y ago
There is a wonderful documentary "Flint Town" (currently on NetFlix) that follows the police department of Flint, MI, a town that is struggling. At one point, officers end up campaigning for a local ballot issue to renew a tax that supposedly supports them, but in reality doesn't. There is a vague promise that they will see the money if the measure is renewed.
After passage, the scene where the Flint city council ultimately screws over the chief of police is appalling. Municipal politics can be brutal too.
- clintonb 8y ago> Municipal politics can be brutal too. Municipal politics are the most brutal. I've seen fistfights at school board meetings! National politics get a lot of attention, but local is where citizens are directly affected.
- sevensor 8y agoI had a co-worker who served on a rural school board. He would get death threats from the more radically anti-tax constituents of his school district. They were opposed to the whole "socialist" enterprise of educating the community's children. More than once he woke up to find a dead groundhog on his front step.
- MaysonL 8y agoSee K. C. Constantine's Rocksburg series of murder mysteries. They're set in a small city in the western Rust Belt of Pennsylvania, featuring a police chief who has many runins with the rest of the municapal government. Then again, my kid brother, a liberal Democrat, spent 20 years in his local government in the most Republican congressional district in New Jersey, serving on the planning commission(20 years), the school board(13 years), and a regional board of education. So cats and dogs can occasionally co-exist peacefully.