538 - In about two-thirds of the U.S. cities with the largest police forces, the majority of police officers commute to work from another town.
This statistic is intimately tied to the diversity of the police force: Black and Hispanic officers are considerably more likely to reside in the cities they police than white ones. In New York, for example, 62 percent of the police force resides within the five boroughs — a comparatively high figure. But there’s a stark racial divide. Seventy-seven percent of black New York police officers live in the city, and 76 percent of Hispanic ones do, but the same is true for only 45 percent of white officers.
On average, among the 75 U.S. cities with the largest police forces, 60 percent of police officers reside outside the city limits.
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This replicates the Jim Crow policing of black town curfews by white patrols, deep in the culture since the 1600s.
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