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9. But haven't most of the shootings of POC seem to be rural areas though
Thu Jul 7, 2016, 07:22 PM
Jul 2016

or at least suburban areas. Baton Rouge (rural area), Minnesota (rural/suburban area), Ferguson (Suburb of St. Louis). The only ones that immediately pop to mind as having been in urban areas are the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore and the death of Eric Garner in NY. I think it has to do with training, as smaller departments (suburban rural departments) tend to receive lower standards of training and also tend to hire people that not meet standards of larger more urban departments. Maybe I am wrong, but I always tend to hear reports of when officers go bad in large urban city departments they wind up applying for police jobs in smaller towns, where the hiring standards might be lower.

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