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Yak_Rodeo t1_j20f18c wrote

Reply to comment by 2old4badbeer in Globe Editorial Board: Boston police union needs to accept new realities of policing by GlobeOpinion

i agree, but thats more of an issue with the city itself. i think the city could do some unique things to remedy it like significant homebuyer rebates for city workers who sign an agreement to stay for a period of time or some variation of that

we are kind of at a perfect storm with the city becoming prohibitively expensive for middle class workers while also national opinion is steering potentially good candidates away from police as a career. the days of the civil service exams having lines out the door for the cop test are long gone

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SkiingAway t1_j215fdz wrote

Realistically, that's just pushing deck chairs around on the Titanic. The city can either build a fuckton more housing, or the city can cripple itself by pricing workers out of the area and coming up with increasingly absurd methods of trying to privilege certain groups of workers over others.

Beyond this, I'm not particularly convinced that someone living in West Roxbury has a better grasp of the issues facing East Boston than someone in Chelsea does.

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