[More importantly, they’re hoping to diversify their ranks, hiring more people from the specific communities they will serve. Familiar faces and names may go a fair ways toward rebuilding trust and getting people to stop fearing the repercussions of cooperating with the police.]
“Nothing like hiring gang members to become cops in order to reduce crime”
Ever since I was kid I believed that to be true. My dinky little town hired two of the town thugs as cops. I guess they figured that they knew all the tricks already.