Places like Troy, New York, are struggling with demographic shifts and the results are not good. Formerly majority white cities and towns are seeing an influx of black and brown residents fleeing cities to escape rising costs of living and better opportunities only to find that they are unwelcome, specifically by local police. While the demographics of these places have changed over time to reflect greater diversity, the police forces have not.  As black and brown people leave major cities to raise families in areas that were once predominantly white, they’re encountering police departments that are slow to reflect those population shifts and all too eager to placate longtime white residents who equate change with rising crime.  To those white residents, the officers serve as a final line of defense against the outsiders marching onto their land, uniformed allies paid to protect them from the dangers they feel closing in around them.

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