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When community safety efforts reveal deep political divides

Our neighborhood watch group started after some break-ins but now we're split between people who want more police presence and those of us who want community-based solutions. We can barely get through meetings anymore and I'm worried we're going to lose the relationships that made us care about this neighborhood in the first place.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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A group that came together out of shared vulnerability is discovering that their different relationships to power and protection are threatening the very connections they were trying to preserve.

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