Thread by @ChadLivengood

2020’s tensions revive an old debate: Should police live in communities they serve & protect?

Just 23% of Detroit’s cops live in the city.

62% of Black cops live in suburbs.

⁦@annalise_frank⁩ and I dived deep into police residency in #CrainsForum: crainsdetroit.com/crains-forum/r…

This week's report on police residency marks the return of #CrainsForum, our monthly section focused on public policy issues impacting Michigan's economy and cities.

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Detroit Justice Center senior attorney Eric Williams wrote a guest column on why most police reform measures are regurgitated and never work:

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Q&A and podcast: Wayne @CountyExecEvans says police residency requirements are a "great concept" but impractical and hard to enforce.

He retells some stories of #Detroit cops with fake homes in an eastside trailer park.

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--> @ChiefJECraigDPD: Residency requirement would ‘severely limit' recruiting for #Detroit police

Craig started his career in DPD's residency rule era.

"I'm not somebody who read this in a book, I was here in 1977."

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via @annalise_frank

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"I just don't see what's the big problem in requiring and making our officers live in the communities that they serve"

Detroit activist Meeko Williams talks cop residency, his own experience being detained at a protest & why he opposes #DefundThePolice

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“White Police Must Live In Detroit”

“Coleman beats DPOA”

Retired @freep scribe Bill McGraw emailed me feedback on our police residency story last week and included clips from a 1975 edition of The Sun, a mid-70s underground paper.

Biting op-ed by the late Ken Cockrel Sr.