In the case of Ferguson, it used to be a white suburb, now black. Police are a legacy from the white past.
“In the case of Ferguson, it used to be a white suburb, now black. Police are a legacy from the white past.”
Very well put; same here in northeastern cities. The current residents don’t pay for police protection (or schools, or anything else for that matter); they expect them because when Anglo-Americans were there they had those things (the fact that they paid for them is conveniently ignored). When municipalities try to raid employers for the revenues, they simply pack up & leave.
Today they complaint about the retirement benefits being paid to those retired white employees (since they consume so much of the limited current revenues); apparently they don’t like other Democrats getting their “stuff”...