Who remembers the local beat cop, who lives in and really knows the community? Increasingly, police don’t live in the neighborhoods, or even the cities they patrol. But is that a problem? On this edition, should police be required to live in the cities they patrol? Law enforcement agencies around the country are struggling for answers to a question that’s about race, class and geography.

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Ferguson crisis revives debate about residency requirements for police

Most Police Don’t Live In The Cities They Serve

The Thin White Line: Most Cops Don’t Look Like the Residents They Serve

Reexamining Residency Requirements For Police Officers

Residency Requirements: Sometimes a Litigation Issue, More Often a Legislative One

How to Handle Residency Requirements

The Residency Rebellion

Fraternal Order of Police

Using Municipal Residency Requirements to Disguise Pubic Policy

Residency Requirements: A Case of Politics Over Economics

Hagerstown considers incentives to draw police officers to live downtown

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett says 53 percent of Detroit’s police force moved out of city after residency rule was lifted

MCCARTHY v. PHILADELPHIA CIVIL SERV. COMM’N

Life of the Law

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