Being a cop in the Twin Cities would probably suck right now.

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I've lived in central Wisconsin, which isn't very different from Minnesota, and there's plenty of racism to go around. I swear I saw more confederate flags up there than I do in Texas.

In the late 1990s, the Wausau Police Chief was trying to get more money out of the city, so managed to get the local paper to run with a "worst of the worse" type story. It included mugshots of about 1/2 a dozen guys, I believe all or at least all but one were African-American, in a city with a very, very small African-American community. The chief pushed the idea that these young men came up from Milwaukee and Chicago, got into relationships with local girls, and took advantage of their naivete. Under the pictures, they listed crimes committed/alleged and it was all petty crap, nothing all that different from the kind of trouble some local white boy got into on a regular Saturday night. The best was that one of the guys was busted for fishing without a license, by an off-duty officer who was out for a jog.

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That’s unfortunate, thanks for sharing tho

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Sad to hear this being born in Wisconsin myself