If the residents would pick up the tab I have no problem with black cops policing black areas; the disgrace is that primarily white taxpayers have to pay the salaries while being excluded from those jobs.
My town, through a “settlement” with the NAACP, has to let neighboring Newark residents apply for our cop/firemen jobs while Newark is allowed to maintain their residency requirement. Newark probably has the lowest property taxes in NJ; everyone else pays their bills. It has gone on long enough; American taxpayers are fleeing NJ in droves, leaving behind people who don’t contribute anything at all.
Memphis is the largest city in Shelby Co, it has it’s own government and police force, then there is county government and county sheriff who is elected. MPD chief is hired, currently crime is up over 12% with murder being the highest number, mostly black on black killings.
So there is DOUBLE taxation. They just gutted their benefits and pay. While raising their own. You only have to work 12 yrs for the city to retire, not the usual 20. And you have to live in Memphis, not the county. They have plenty of money for BS projects, but not for Police, Fire or Teachers. While the roads go un-repaired, but there sure is a lot of new road construction on I40/240 widening both from Federal $$. Schools are closing as population moves out of high crime areas, as are many businesses moving out of the smaller shopping malls because of the crime. The closest mall to us is a nearly empty shell now high crime and the area looks deserted. There are areas you just don’t go into regardless of your skin color even armed. It’s not on a map, just a section of low income/welfare people, lots of dope, prostitutes, filth, you name it, it’s there. Typical LIBTARD big city.