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I know places (locally) that I consider gentrified where friends have been beaten up for being the wrong minority. Gentrified doesn't always mean safe.
by pyre 12y ago
I know places (locally) that I consider gentrified where friends have been beaten up for being the wrong minority. Gentrified doesn't always mean safe.
- golergka 12y agoHas the probability of this increased, decreased or stayed the same though?
- dmix 12y agoStudies have shown police tend to "over-police" poor neighbourhoods. Disproportionate even to the percentage of crime that exists in those areas. So I wouldn't be surprised if they spent less time in newly gentrified areas and spent most of their time patrolling the worse areas. Offsetting the crime reduction.
- rhizome 12y agoLike Michael Griffith in Howard Beach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Beach_racial_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Beach_racial_incident