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ORIGINAL: kdsub
The Ferguson police were and are an excellent department that received an excellent score from the citizens of Ferguson when polled just before this incident.. Things do not change overnight. Police are not the problem. The kid was a criminal and a punk that thought he could bully a cop the same way he did the store clerk...Evidence supports the story of the police officer and all fair minded people understand this.
This was however the catalyst that released the frustration of African Americans in Ferguson and those in similar circumstances throughout the country. What they fail to realize is that the problems are with them... not outside. Change does need to happen and only they can do it for themselves. Their situation in life will not change until they keep their children in school... keep them off the street... teach them respect for all people including the police...Aid the police in solving crime...and VOTE and above all stop blaming white people for their problems and learn to solve them themselves.
Butch
The police and courts have acted like a racketeering operation to beat up on the poor and under-employed in Ferguson. Its not good when the police are a parasitic organization masquerading as public servants.
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"As Ray Downs from the RiverFront Times reported, the amount collected through the municipal courts seems to be inversely proportional to the wealth of the municipality. For example, the City of Pine Lawn is 96 percent black, and “ its per capita income a measly $13,000. In 2013 the city collected more than $1.7 million in fines and court fees. ”
Conversely, “the affluent west - county suburb of Chesterfield, with a population of 47,000 (about fifteen times bigger than Pine Lawn) and a per capita income of $50,000, collected just $1.2 million from municipal fines, according to statistics compiled by the state."
>Ferguson is a city located in northern St. Louis County with 21,203 residents living in 8,192 households . The majority (67%) of residents are African - American, while the remainder (29%) are largely white.
Ferguson’s unemployment rate is 14.3%, more than double that of both St. Louis County (6.1%) 68 and Missouri (6.6%), and a full 10% of the city’s 9,105 housing units are vacant .
22% of residents live below the poverty level, including 35.3% of children under 18, and 21.7% received food stamps in the last year .
Despite Ferguson’s relative poverty, fines and court fees comprise the second largest source of revenue for the city, a total of $2,635,400.
In 2013, the Ferguson Municipal Court disposed of 24,532 warrants and 12,018 cases, or about 3 warrants and 1.5 cases per household. <
"Court costs and fines represent a significant source of income for these towns. According to the
St. Louis County two municipalities alone, Ferguson and Florissant, earned a combined net profit of $
3.5 million off of their municipal courts in 2013"
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"As Ray Downs from the RiverFront Times reported, the amount collected through the municipal courts seems to be inversely proportional to the wealth of the municipality. For example, the City of Pine Lawn is 96 percent black, and “ its per capita income a measly $13,000. In 2013 the city collected more than $1.7 million in fines and court fees. ”
Conversely, “the affluent west - county suburb of Chesterfield, with a population of 47,000 (about fifteen times bigger than Pine Lawn) and a per capita income of $50,000, collected just $1.2 million from municipal fines, according to statistics compiled by the state."
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