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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
"In Ferguson, at least 16,000 individuals had arrest warrants last year compared with the town’s total population of just 21,000 residents. Those warrants fed what the DOJ called a “code-enforcement system … honed to produce more revenue.”
In nearby City of St. Louis, the 75,000 outstanding arrest warrants are equivalent to about one-quarter of the population, part of a county-wide problem of cash-strapped cities incentivized to “squeeze their residents with fines,” as The Washington Post put it. One city, Pine Lawn, Missouri, recently had 23,000 open arrest warrants compared with the city’s population of just 3,275 residents; court fees and traffic tickets make up nearly 30 percent of its municipal revenue. “Getting tickets — and getting them fixed — are two actions that define living in the St. Louis area,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported earlier this month." More here: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/......-family/
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On Apr 12, 2015, landmark wrote: Some jurisdictions have a very high number of outstanding warrants. The U.S. state of California in 1999 had around 2.5 million outstanding warrants, with nearly 1 million of them in the Los Angeles area.[15] The city of Baltimore, Maryland, had 100,000 as of 2007.[16] New Orleans, Louisiana, has 49,000.[
If I were to agree with you. Then we would both be wrong. As of Apr 5, 2015 10:26 pm I have 880 posts. Used to have over 1,000
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
All true, but nowhere near the % of Ferguson, St. Louis, or especially Pine Lawn, Missouri. Kind of a red flag, yes?
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
Better build some more prisons.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
magicfish Inner circle 7004 Posts |
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On Apr 12, 2015, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: Agreed |
tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
It is a prison.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
Tommy |
LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
If only the city could go back to the paradise it was when a young man could rob a liquor store on camera and people would ask what the problem was.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
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On Apr 13, 2015, LobowolfXXX wrote: On parole, eh, Lobo? Glad to have you back in uncivil society. John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
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On Apr 12, 2015, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: State-run, or private, for profit? |
Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
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On Apr 13, 2015, S2000magician wrote: Heck make 'em private. And get rid of those pesky, expensive trials. They distort the market.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
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On Apr 13, 2015, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: Efficiency is a virtue. |
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