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Flint Town
2018 · TV series · documentary · 45 min episodes · 1 season
DocumentaryCrimeActionAdventure
Over a two-year period, filmmakers embedded with cops in Flint, Michigan, reveal a department grappling with volatile issues in untenable conditions.
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There is a wonderful documentary "Flint Town" (currently on NetFlix) that follows the police department of Flint, MI, a town that is struggling. At one point, officers end up campaigning for a local ballot issue to renew a tax that supposedly supports them, but in reality doesn't. There is a vague promise that they will see the money if the measure is renewed.
After passage, the scene where the Flint city council ultimately screws over the chief of police is appalling. Municipal politics can be brutal too.
The problem with police violence is that they fundamentally do not see the murders of unarmed people as a problem. On Netflix's Flint Town, there is an episode where the Flint officers watch the video of a woman in the car with her husband who was shot beside her. None of the officers in the room questioned the obviously emotional police officer, rather clearly there was something to hide because the woman was too calm.
In a situation like that, where one group feels the shooting of unarmed people is justified the absolute numbers are not the whole picture.
The Midwest sees educated people as an inconvenience or a threat?
Goddamn. Where did you get that idea from? Clearly you have no idea what you’re talking about.
The problem is that it’s stagnanted over here. NAFTA destroyed the way of life for a lot of mid-westneners. Made people poor. Made want. Destroyed the mechanisms, the entry level, manual jobs, that people used to pull themselves up by.
Municipalities got into a vicious cycle of loss of tax base feeding into loss of services feeding into even more loss of tax base.
For starters, to get an idea of what’s going on over here, I’d recommend you watch both Detropia and Flint Town. Get a little taste of reality and see the people you’re trying to crap on. Everyone here, everyone sees that value and importance of education. Every parent, even in the most down-trodden neighborhoods with the worst schools, wants this for their children. Again, loss of tax base, loss of jobs, increased violence.
Assuming you live on one of the coasts, you’ll get yours. Just wait until the underfunded pension systems finally blow.
Can’t believe I just read such a level idiocy on HN.