Our neighborhood has been dealing with a string of break-ins and everyone is scared, but the community meetings keep turning into arguments about security cameras versus more police presence versus addressing root causes. We all want to feel safe but we can't agree on what safety actually means or costs, and meanwhile nothing is getting done.
More people experience this than they realize.
A community is discovering that shared fears don't automatically create shared solutions when underlying values about security and justice diverge.
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