(March 5, 2015 at 8:33 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Except that who do you think pays for all that? Double whammy on the taxpayers.
Unfortunately true, but how else should it be addressed? Those involved in the criminal conspiracy to deprive people of their rights should be individually sued and lose their jobs. Let their lives be ruined. Police have a measure of qualified immunity, but I don't think that holds where there is criminal activity.
Apparently, the report also indicates the problems are not confined just to Ferguson. Where there is one cockroach, more are surely in hiding:
Quote:It was billed as an investigation of the Ferguson Police Department. But a hard-hitting report released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice also reads as an indictment of cities and towns across the St. Louis region.
The report implicates at least four other municipalities in alleged misconduct or questionable behavior. And as the Justice Department itself acknowledged, many of the conditions described in the report could have been written about any number of the 90 municipalities in St. Louis County.
"What's listed in the report about Ferguson is a widespread practice," said Thomas Harvey, executive director for the Arch City Defenders, a nonprofit legal advocacy organization that has brought attention to the municipal courts in St. Louis County over the past several months. "I don't think anyone who takes these issues seriously … can limit their work to Ferguson."
