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Tracing The Live-Work Divide In Philadelphia’s Police Force

Discussion has grown in the media lately regarding law enforcement’s detachment and potential bias for the neighborhoods they patrol when they commonly call home elsewhere, particularly in larger cities. In Philadelphia, where police officers lived at the turn of the century looks dramatically than it does today. David Hilbert dove into the City Archives to compare the residential zip codes of the Philadelphia’s police force in 1925 and wonders if the migration toward the Northeast and elsewhere has eroded an inner city connection to communities they protect