Posted on 02/10/2016 6:02:43 AM PST by artichokegrower
The next chapter of Ferguson's dealings with the U.S. Department of Justice will likely play out in court, as the City Council on Tuesday night decided to rebuff a proposed agreement to reform its police department and court.
The city proclaimed that the decision amounted to approving a consent decree that it had spent months negotiating with the department, arguing that seven suggested changes were among hundreds of requirements to which the city had agreed.
But one of the proposed amendments would wipe out much of the decree in the event that Ferguson disbanded its police force.
The Justice Department's reaction was swift.
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People and businesses with the means to get out of town are going to be doing just that, pronto.
Only an idiot would agree to those terms.
I can’t see how the agreement could even be legal.
Reminds me of a mafia protection scheme.
http://fox2now.com/2016/02/09/fbi-ranks-st-louis-top-us-city-for-violent-crime-in-2015/
Very true, and not isolated.
I read this morning where the Administration is about to vent it’s political bloodlust on Kentucky, where Gov. Bevins is following through with his promise to scrap the state’s Obamacare exchange.
We really are seeing Mafia-style (or, perhaps, labor union-style) retaliatory attacks being made under the auspices of Federal authority.
They just have to hold out until January.
If Ferguson can’t use their police force as a revenue producing agency as they have in the past then they really have no choice but to disband it and farm out law enforcement to the St. Louis County Sheriff. They simply won’t have the money to pay for a separate force.
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