Ferguson and the Justice Department Report

[JesusHChrist]

Personally, I don't find it all that hard to obey the law.
It doesn't matter one whit if they issued lots of citations as long as the citations were true bills.
Break the law - Pay the fine. If you don't like the law, get it changed though political action.
You don't get to go through life giving society's rules the finger..

You need to read the report.

Are these true bills? Not wearing a seatbelt while sitting in a parked car? Giving your name as Mike when it is legally Michael?

One charge, Making a False Declaration, was for initially providing the short form of his first name (e.g., “Mike” instead of “Michael”), and an address which, although legitimate, was different from the one on his driver’s license. Another charge was for not wearing a seat belt, even though he was seated in a parked car. The officer also charged the man both with having an expired operator’s license, and with having no operator’s license in his possession. The man told us that, because of these charges, he lost his job as a contractor with the federal government that he had held for years.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/....html?_r=0

You know what prompted the cop to write these citations? The man declined to allow his car to be searched as is within his 4th amendment rights.

Is exercising your rights giving the finger to society? Actually, I think it is an out of control police force acting as agent of government corruption that is giving the finger to society. What these criminals have done is far more detrimental to society than miscellaneous low-level crimes. They have attacked the very fabric of a civil society - rule of law, equal protection, civil rights.