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I don't know if you read the Ferguson commission report, it was discussed in this subreddit a little?
One thing that's come up with regard to some police departments, including Chicago, is that if you live in a poor black neighborhood and you call for an ambulance because, say, your kid is sick or your mom is having a heart attack? The police show up first and refuse to let the ambulance crew into the house until they've searched the house and run everybody in the house's ID for wants or warrants. Examples that extreme are rare, but ...
Let's say somebody shot your friend, and you think you know who did it. So you call 911. Cops show up. They take your statement. It's your word against his, so they don't really do anything about it. But while they're there, they notice that the apartment isn't up to code. Or maybe they decide that, since you invited them in, they might as well call for a drug-sniffing dog and see what turns up. Now you have a dead friend, a murderer on the loose, and the cops have taken you in.
I know this comes as a shock, especially to people who haven't read, say, Sudhir Venkatesh's Off the Books, but in a poor enough neighborhood, nobody is earning a 100% legal living AND living in a 100% up-to-code home. Nobody can stand up to close scrutiny by the police -- if you tried to live that way, you'd be starving on the street, you'd definitely lose your kids. What jobs there are involve things like doing business without a license, or getting paid off the books, or other code violations; what housing you can afford wouldn't pass a city inspection.
Now, I'd like to think that in, say, a murder investigation, the cops wouldn't prioritize housing code violations or misdemeanor drug possession or operating an unlicensed hair salon over, say, protecting a witness to a murder. But you know, the murder conviction isn't a sure thing, but this ticket or this misdemeanor arrest shows up on CompStat.
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