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Robert Hunter's avatar

Having read all of Malcolm Gladwells books and all of yours Matt including "I can't breathe" combined with my life experiences in Canada, the USA and the Bahamas I don't expect much change in the future. The "underclass" and the criminal classes are just too big in many western societies. The police are there to protect the ruling classes from us, the working classes and they do a credible job. They are secondarily there to protect the working classes from the underclass and the criminal classes and that's not much fun, crappy hours, crappy pay and the chance to deal with what most of us "middle classes", actually lower working classes. Like surgery and the abbitoir; we really don't want to see what's being done, just look after it officer. Our brutal capitalism system will always have the underclass and the ruling rentier classes like it the way it is and we seem to have bought into it. Hell, the USA still doesn't have universal public health care or paid maternity leave, quite brutal if you've ever lived in any other western countries. The Hood and The Holler are way too big to fix. The system is basically " inverted totalitarianism" and it works well for the 1% and the 10% officer classes; for the rest of us who produce the wealth and perform most useful services of all races "actually a social concept, we are all Homo sapiens"and ethnicities we depend on the cop's to keep a lid on it. Notice how the "defund the Police" politicians sure want their security on your nickel... hypocrisy... you bet.

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Mostly disagreeable's avatar

"The Hood and the Holler" would be a great Netflix original series.

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