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The town is 70 percent black, the local government and police force is overwhelmingly white. And the guy that has any sort of pull, Captain Johnson, had to be brought in from another jurisdiction because he has local roots. So I am not surprised that the local police are not being successful in convincing people to behave. They probably have no connection to the community. All politics are local.
Tammany Hall in New York was pretty bad, and Boss Tweed was corrupt. But those guys would help out those who they paid to vote for them when they got in trouble with the cops sometimes.
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