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Understand the culture difference between Greenville and Charleston must be subtle given I did not see a difference.
It is interesting you are emphasizing what you say is a subtle culture difference.
I think most people when deciding between Greenville and Charleston consider things like housing costs and proximity to
beach vs mountains.
The only reason I can see to point out there is a smaller percentage of Christians in Charleston is you believe there is intolerance for Christians in Charleston or you don't want Christians to move there. It is easy to meet other Christians in Charleston.
Last edited by LakeMan45; 01-26-2024 at 07:52 AM..
I have lived in , Greenville, Columbia, Charleston. I didn't notice a difference in culture. The culture is you are free to believe whatever you want.
If crime tolerance and anti cop sentiment becomes the norm in Charleston, that would be a culture difference with Greenville.
The original In N Out burger joint closed in Oakland due to crime and city tolerance for it. I fear downtown Charleston will become a ghost town if cops are MIA.
Many people who are not religious want to adopt the religious ritual of marriage and have used government to redefine it. Marriage is a culture thing. District cultures don't adopt the rituals of other cultures. If you are annoyed with how the church defines marriage, that means you want to be included in the Christian culture.
Cops have never been MIA in Charleston. BTW, on riot day, both Mount Pleasant and North Charleston police were on the scene as well because of how massive the peaceful crowd of protesters had become. Those were the people that would have had to be run over by brute force in order for the police to get to the strip of businesses that were being pilfered by the handful of criminal vandals.
In the end, no one died, and then the political posturing went into high gear and many average Joes bought into it. The CPD had increased its presence in the nightlife hotspots before losing their police chief to cancer a few months ago. The extra measures remain in place. The CPD isn’t going anywhere, and Charlestonians are glad crime in the city is decreasing.
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Cops have never been MIA in Charleston. BTW, on riot day, both Mount Pleasant and North Charleston police were on the scene as well because of how massive the peaceful crowd of protesters had become. Those were the people that would have had to be run over by brute force in order for the police to get to the strip of businesses that were being pilfered by the handful of criminal vandals.
In the end, no one died, and then the political posturing went into high gear and many average Joes bought into it. The CPD had increased its presence in the nightlife hotspots before losing their police chief to cancer a few months ago. The extra measures remain in place. The CPD isn’t going anywhere, and Charlestonians are glad crime in the city is decreasing.
Police have crowd dispersal techniques like tear gas. Cops used tear gas on Clemson students that had carried the goalposts into downtown after a big win 20 years ago. It worked. If they are dropping tear gas on harmless Clemson students, they could have done the same to rioters in Charleston.
It doesn't make sense to believe cops could not disperse a crowd for over 3 hours. Business owners on King Street didn't buy that. The cops got lucky nobody was killed.
Posturing can involve downplaying something because of a conflict of interest. If it takes cops in Greenville over 3 hours to respond to a riot, I will have the same criticism. It isn't about political posturing.
People questioning if leaders told the cops to stand down in Charleston are applying pressure on those leaders to improve law enforcement.
Last edited by LakeMan45; 01-26-2024 at 09:29 PM..
Police have crowd dispersal techniques like tear gas. Cops used tear gas on Clemson students that had carried the goalposts into downtown after a big win 20 years ago. It worked. If they are dropping tear gas on harmless Clemson students, they could have done the same to rioters in Charleston.
It doesn't make sense to believe cops could not disperse a crowd for over 3 hours. Business owners on King Street didn't buy that. The cops got lucky nobody was killed.
Posturing can involve downplaying something because of a conflict of interest. If it takes cops in Greenville over 3 hours to respond to a riot, I will have the same criticism. It isn't about political posturing.
People questioning if leaders told the cops to stand down in Charleston are applying pressure on those leaders to improve law enforcement.
But in 2030 and beyond you’ll still be talking about the King Street riot and the Charleston Police Department on that day as evidence that downtown Charleston is unsafe. The CPD implemented new crime prevention, crowd control, and safety tactics downtown not long after the riot. Give it a rest.
It seems relevant to point out the riots in Charleston, and that Greenville didn't have any major issues. It could be few people care about this.
The riots in Charleston could be an anomaly but there is a crime tolerance in some cities, even ones with high number of
wealthy people like San Fran. There are good number of stores closing in downtown areas due to crime.
Charleston and Charlestonians’ tolerance for crime is low. Actually it’s nonexistent. There is no tolerance for crime. Same for the police department.
King Street specifically is now a designated business improvement district with attention to all aspects of central business districts. Don’t worry about downtown Charleston’s impressive retail corridor. It’s getting better literally every day, and it has been awesome for many years now.
Every city has crime. Every city is at risk of unrest around hot-button national issues and events. There is nothing inherent in Greenville’s downtown nor in its police department that explains why a riot didn’t happen there while it did happen in Charleston.
Greenville would probably be closer to Boise than Charleston , in most aspects, Charleston WILL have hurricanes to consider so there is that as well
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