“When I started, Black folks I’d speak to in Minneapolis seemed surprised that I’d been hired,” Chief Green said when I spoke with him recently. “They told me they and most people they knew avoided driving through Golden Valley.”
Members of the overwhelmingly white police force responded to both hires by quitting — in droves.
Basically: bad cops create crime. They do this by convincing people that the risks associated with calling the cops are greater than the benefits, and by diverting attention away from actual crime and towards minorities who haven’t actually committed any crime. This makes it easier to get away with actual crime, so it criminal behavior thrives.