According to a spokesperson from the police department quoted in the article:
Knight said there are a variety of reasons for it. “Some of them, probably socioeconomic,” he said. “But there’s also, at least in this community, a very good partnership with our citizens. We are very well funded. We get amazing equipment that helps us do the things we do here, and we’ve always had real strong community support here.”
Sounds good to me, depending on what he means by “amazing equipment.” Local police forces should not have military gear.
Ft. Leonard Wood has no more strip clubs within the same county. The Army blacklisted them a long time ago and they all went out of business.
Even Big Louie had to go legit if he wanted to avoid bankruptcy. He created his own incorporated town (Uranus, Missouri) and it’s now a featured destination on Route 66.
Training bases used to be more likely to have strip clubs, because only boot privates are stupid enough to pay for not having sex when there’s barracks hoes in every rack.
Well, my first thought is to ask about OKC and homelessness. You could argue that they probably don’t “coddle” them in the same way that a Californian city might, but also the weather in LA right now: 64° and sunny, overnight of 51°. OKC: 32°, overnight of 27°. The point: conditions, and therefore solutions, are not going to exactly map.
I also noticed the OKC reference to “equipment”. What does that mean? Is it gear for the better beating of asses? Does it mean more cars? Ubiquitous surveilance? Something else?
Yes, conditions vary. I work in Minneapolis, and we have the toughest homeless people in the country. Average February high temp is 28, average low is 11. But I’m not really sure what this has to do with what I posted.
I would ask him to clarify what he meant by “amazing equipment.” Hopefully not murder robots and military gear. But the key to what he said was, “we’ve always had real strong community support here.” After George Floyd, community support for Minneapolis police plummeted and crime skyrocketed. Now support is on the rise and violent crime is on the decline.
Well, there’ another factor that might be difficult to export: community support. There’s a lot of powerful variables there, not the least of which is homogeneity and history.
Time to remove that requirement.