Indiana

If you make them feel like they're going to be criticized and even fired for focusing enforcement efforts too heavily (or heavy-handedly) on poor and/or minority neighborhoods, they're going to opt to stay away from them ... which often leads to rising crime rates therein. Poverty breeds despair, despair breeds violence and crime. Then people get pissed the cops aren't there ENOUGH.

IOW, there's a bit of an intractable vicious cycle going on in cities across the US, not just South Bend.

I do have to ask though ... "The toll of people killed or injured in shootings in South Bend seems to rise every week" ... how exactly would the toll (i.e. count) ever go down? Rising is the only direction possible for any given 'toll' over time