That is just because the police department is full of White supremacists and they use secret
hand signals so the fash are not arrested.
Since it's a slow night, let me share a story.
So I was a wee little twink in college and went on a few dates. One of the faggots I was interested in was studying urban planning. Now, back then I was part of the LGBT club and was fighting for gay marriage. Such, their was an aurora regarding me and people felt more open. This was the case with the urban planner.
Over the next few weeks your wee little Kiwi twink and the faggot would talk. One discussion was about the lands the forebears that then twink came from. The urban planner marveled at how great Japan was but was met with hesitation. The twink explained that sometimes some piece and quite is nice, especially if one had a nice plot of land located on the outskirts of the suburbs.
A brief pause came, then the urban planner said that the twink should reconsider his opinion. That perhaps living in dense urban environments is the best thing to do not individually but as a
community. He went on to say that even better was government funded housing that was mixed income, such that social stratification become more difficult. That with mixed income housing the upper middle class and middle class could not isolate themselves from the problem of the lower classes. As such the urban planner explained, we could conquer problems more easily as a
collective.
This urban planner went with a few examples. If minority students were in a school with rich and White students the racial inequalities in education would be substantially lessened. The these well off parents would spend some of their discretionary income and time to make such a school better for their kids and as a result all kids, especially Black and Brown kids.
That issues like crime and homelessness would be more quickly solved if the rich and middle classes were subjected to it.
While it is easy for the middle class and rich to hop in their cars and arrive at their driveways all while ignoring the problems that lead to crime and homelessness; it would be much harder when you are facing the problem on public transit or if their was a homeless man on the sidewalk of your apartment building, said the urban planner smirking.
The verbal manifesto continued as the urban planner described how urban planning could be used to influence politics, especially to combat NIMBYism. After all, if the such mixed income areas reflected the interests of the
collective it would be much more difficult for NIMBY projects to be quashed. Perhaps, even the then third rail of politics... gun control could be enacted
as the voices of a fringe minority would be lost among the voices of the population demanding an end to gun violence. No longer could these suburbanites stall real reform by pleading to their local politician.
As the tirade drew near the end, the urban planner admitted that their were challenges to such a grand plan. This would come in the form of suburban resistance to living in an area that they chose to leave. No matter. Laws can be enacted to make living in the suburbs a pain. Such, the suburbanite would be nudged to live in the big city. Perhaps reducing lanes on fairly busy roads to make it more difficult for the suburbanite to get to work. This could be packaged as sometime innocuous sounding, like road diets, and be billed as a safety measure. Another option would be congestion taxes, as in making driving into the city more expensive. Next, would be business taxes make public transit free.
Eventually, enough people living in the suburbs will get tired of paying fee after fee, the traffic that keeps getting worse, and not benefiting from the free services the city has to provide.
While this Kiwi did not accuse the urban planner of being a Marxist and throw the urban planner out of a helicopter, it never really worked out. Not so much the Marxism, that was missed, but because the man was a lying, illogical coward that believed in their personal truths...something that I do not understand to this day.
Sorry, any Kiwis that are urban planners but I think your field is full of goddamned communists.