Who remembers the local beat cop, who lives in and really knows the community? Increasingly, police don’t live in the neighborhoods, or even the cities they patrol. But is that a problem? On this edition, should police be required to live in the cities they patrol? Law enforcement agencies around the country are struggling for answers to a question that’s about race, class and geography.
Featuring:
Officer Charles Stone, Sergeant Mildred Oliver, Chief Sean Whent, Oakland police dept.; Bob Nash, retired Nashville Tennessee police commander; Yvette Thierry, Safe Streets Strong Communities founder; John Penny, Southern University of New Orleans Criminology Professor; Andrew Flowers, 538.com quantitative editor; Anthony Jackson, Oakland resident; Terrence Allen, University of Texas at Austin assistant professor.
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Ferguson crisis revives debate about residency requirements for police
Most Police Don’t Live In The Cities They Serve
The Thin White Line: Most Cops Don’t Look Like the Residents They Serve
Reexamining Residency Requirements For Police Officers
Residency Requirements: Sometimes a Litigation Issue, More Often a Legislative One
How to Handle Residency Requirements
Using Municipal Residency Requirements to Disguise Pubic Policy
Residency Requirements: A Case of Politics Over Economics
Hagerstown considers incentives to draw police officers to live downtown
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