RE: Ferguson and the Justice Department Report
March 11, 2015 at 8:31 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2015 at 8:34 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(March 11, 2015 at 7:41 pm)IATIA Wrote: If the taxes are not raised, then from where do the moneys come? Shuffle road and bridge funds or how about school taxes?
Most jurisdictions have general funds as well that aren't allotted.
(March 11, 2015 at 7:41 pm)IATIA Wrote: Basically, you are saying the people should be punished for letting themselves be punished.
No. I am saying that the citizenry should pay the cost for not demanding and ensuring that the justice done in their name is, well, just.
Suing the individual police officer will not get the victims anything, because cops just don't have the property and liquid holdings for a lawsuit to deliver a just award; and how many attorneys will take such a suit on contingency, knowing that their percentage won't amount to much at all?
We have a responsibility to ensure that the government acting in our name is fair and just. When the people as a whole fail that job, we should as a whole pay.
I live in Travis County. TCSO polices the country, out here. They have access to the taxes of well over one million workers. Even if we were to have five cases of brutality each settled for a million dollars, I am comfortable paying five dollars a year more in taxes if that will ensure that justice is done. And that leverage will give more weight to the complaints of the citizens about how the Sheriff's Office acts.
(March 11, 2015 at 8:20 pm)Jenny A Wrote: The just place to look would be the resigning officers severance packages.
Those would be wholly insufficient to deliver justice to Michael Brown's family, I should think ... never mind the hundreds of others who have been done wrong.
