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The cops on the Second City Cop blog complain about this exact thing and did long before the ferguson mess. The cops don’t want to police this way, as revenue collectors.
Slate anD NY Times think they are top of the curve because they learned about speed traps?
This Ferguson™ stuff is getting pretty stretched thin.
If you don’t want a riot squad in your neighborhood, don’t riot. It’s incredibly simple to protest but NOT riot, loot and burn.
For profit policing has been around for over a century and this “Brainiac” professor has figured out why people are upset in Ferguson with Coppers? What an epiphany! This member of the of the enlighten class of thinkers really needs to have a heart to heart talk with Captain Obvious.
“Stuck on Stupid”
Even state police agencies have been accused of Ticket Quotas.
Early in the month, they tend to make more stops and issue more tickets to get jump on their quotas.
If they are running short near the end of the month, they increase the stops and ticket issuing.
Of course, they deny it.
It's at least as bad for whites, who in addition to speed traps, have to worry about higher-ticket assessments, like civil asset forfeiture.
How about highlighting the dangers of feral humans?
The cause of ferguson is a legitimate shooting in self defense (much like the trayvon martin case) was turned into a lynching lie about a white cop— by agenda driven media zealots.
then black criminals used it as an excuse to destroy and steal things, And black “leaders” used it as a means to spread hate and lies.
That’s what happened, that’s what went wrong, not these other distractions.
Just when you think the leftist racists have scraped the bottom of the sewer tank clean they come up with a new mouthful.
“According to a study by the St. Louis nonprofit Better Together, Ferguson receives nearly one-quarter of its revenue from court fees; for some surrounding towns it approaches 50 percent.”
That completely blows up his thesis. As a percentage, Ferguson gets only half as much as some surrounding towns. That makes Ferguson a terrible example. Liberals are idiots.
The only solution is to dissolve all forms of local government and have a single end-all central government.
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More like the danger of for-profit race baiting.