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mekka okereke :verified:

Now understand why civil rights leaders say that Chicago's plan to make murders go down by giving police officers an arrest quota, is doomed to fail.

chicago.suntimes.com/news/2022

Cops are just going to arrest the poorest, Blackest, people in the city for petty crimes, starting them down a poverty spiral that will ruin their lives.

This *reduces* trust in a way that can't be made up by "positive interactions."

"You arrested my mom, but later you smiled at me." Doesn't exactly win hearts and minds.

Chicago Sun-TimesCPD leaders told to pump up arrests, solve more murders — or face demotion, sources say after private meeting with mayor, top copAfter Chicago’s deadliest year in a quarter-century, Lori Lightfoot and Supt. David Brown pressed police brass in a closed-door meeting to increase flagging arrest numbers and get officers to engage more with city residents.
Jan 31, 2023, 10:17 PM·Public
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