“And if there is more than one hotspot that is a further indictment of the police, not an exoneration of them.”
I see that as an indictment of the community,not the police.
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It’s not an either/or scenario.
If a house was burning and the fire department’s response was to yell ‘Fire!’ it may be helpful to a point but it seems the taxpayers funding their operations might have a reasonable expectation of further action.