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In reply to the discussion: Do you feel comfortable with your local cops? [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)where there are high crime minority areas. I don't think you'll find minorities harrassed in more rural areas or areas where there's not a high crime rate associated with poverty or whatever.
I also think urban areas attract those big thugs and corruption, that smaller, less crime rate areas don't.
New Orleans, Chicago, L.A....high crime, high minority crime, law enforcement corruption and abusiveness. They also get a lot of media attention. It DOESN'T get media attention when a cop does not do something wrong, or a minority is not harrassed by a cop and simply given a ticket like a white person would be. People in urban areas don't seem to realize the immensity of our country and how millions of people in the country live...not in big urban areas. For most of us, there's no shooting in the streets, no people being beaten up by cops weekly, no home invasions. (Although I DO live in an urban area and am concerned about crime, I come from a less populated area, so I can compare the two.)