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When community organizing reveals deeper divisions

Our neighborhood group has been trying to address some safety issues for months but every meeting turns into the same people talking past each other about what the real problems are. Some of us want more police presence, others want community solutions, and we're not even agreeing on what needs fixing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Shared concern doesn't automatically create shared vision, especially when safety means different things to different people.

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Worth thinking about

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