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When community safety solutions create deeper divisions

Our neighborhood has been dealing with increased break-ins and some people want to hire private security while others think that's going to make things worse for families who are already struggling here. The divide is getting ugly and we all still have to live next to each other.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Neighbors are discovering that their different approaches to shared problems reveal incompatible values about who deserves protection.

Worth thinking about

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