People Mastodon

Police are frequently not citizens of the place where they work. I work for a small city in the Development department, and not a single person at City Hall from police to court to administration has ties to the city itself.

In our case it's because the tiny city is an enclave for the mega-rich and you literally can't buy a house for under 3 million dollars right now, and the new-build homes are between 5 and 30 million, and they're not gonna pay staff enough money to live in town.

But even in other places, lots of police live outside the city where they work, if for no other reason than specifically because they don't want to enforce the laws on their neighbors.