St Louis County police forces are more predator than protector: using fines as a substitute for a tax base. Ferguson is far from the worst offender in this regard yet after predatory harassment for fines led to catastrophe we find Ferguson's finest doubling down on stupid. Apparently the "most unpopular police force evah" plans to close a million dollar budget shortfall caused by stupid, exploitative policing by turning to more stupid exploitative policing, namely increasing fine revenue by a million dollars. Sigh.
On the the bright side (if you can call anything MO Democrats do "bright") the state AG is prosecuting 13 (Democrat) St. Louis county municipalities for levying excessive fines - essentially farming the citizenry. But not Ferguson which is odd. Alex Tabarrock has more here.
In other news I find it rich that Democrat police killing and exploiting Democrat blacks in a Democrat owned municipality in a Democrat dominated county, supported by a black Democrat County Executive, protected by a Democrat County Prosecutor, a Democrat state Attorney General and a Democrat Governor is an example of right wing Republican racism.
Of course this sort of intellectual pornography is how my father's family: life long Republicans who lived in Oklahoma and opposed Jim Crow and all the corruption it entailed can be called 'racist' by the very descendants of Jim crow that they fought. To be a libertarian conservative is to be slandered over and over and over by statist thugs. Who of course are as racist and sexist towards whites and men today as they were towards blacks and women yesterday. They will endorse any bigotry that leads to power.
In other news I find it rich that Democrat police killing and exploiting Democrat blacks in a Democrat owned municipality in a Democrat dominated county, supported by a black Democrat County Executive, protected by a Democrat County Prosecutor, a Democrat state Attorney General and a Democrat Governor is an example of right wing Republican racism.
Of course this sort of intellectual pornography is how my father's family: life long Republicans who lived in Oklahoma and opposed Jim Crow and all the corruption it entailed can be called 'racist' by the very descendants of Jim crow that they fought. To be a libertarian conservative is to be slandered over and over and over by statist thugs. Who of course are as racist and sexist towards whites and men today as they were towards blacks and women yesterday. They will endorse any bigotry that leads to power.
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