Can the Fargo police department be a model for the rest of the country?

[Suburbia]

Fargo, North Dakota is a blue-leaning city in a deep red state. Yet, it seems that their police officers are really cool and vibe well with the Black community......to the point where they are like brothers and sisters....

Can Fargo, like the remodeled Camden, NJ department, be model?

https://creativemornings.com/talks/officer-michael-bloom

https://www.valleynewslive.com/content/misc/NDT---Officer-Michael-Bloom-571291841.html

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

There’s like 2 black people in all of north dakota

[Suburbia]

There’s like 2 black people in all of north dakota

Fargo is 2% Black, it appears, but they have a really GOOD connection with the police department....if deep red North Dakota can do it, why can't deep blue NYC and Westchester do it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY4vI0eNXvc

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

There’s like 2 black people in all of north dakota

Fargo was 2.7% black as of the 2010 Census which is still well over 2000 people and no doubt more black today. However the black population there is not a segregated and stratified minority as they are in the other places bronz is talking about so it's apples to oranges in comparison. Also Fargo doesn't have large criminal gangs or a large organized crime presence aside from the drug trafficking syndicates that operate everywhere and they kind of gave up on marijuana enforcement a couple years ago thus police don't go through the same "warrior training" or feel as under pressure as in most places.

[Alben Barkley]

Salt Lake City supposedly has a pretty great police department which went through highly effective de-escalation training which massively reduced both police violence AND crime.

So if anything THAT should be the model.

[Meclazine for Israel]

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

For the record it has been known that blacks from the Twin Cities (as well as Omaha and even Chicago) have been moving to Fargo the last decade due to the lower costs of living/economic opportunities and less crime and blight. (As well as other smaller metros in the Midwest like Rochester and Sioux Falls.) Also a lot of black people got hired to work in the Bakken Fields too you know, and a lot of them decided just to stay in Bismarck or Fargo instead of returning to whenever they originally came from.

So joking about how there's basically no black people there misses the mark big time (not that it was ever truly accurate of course.) However for the reasons outlined above this is still not comparable to the black population in NYC/Chicago and any other major metros or anywhere in the south with no social stratification/redlining/etc.