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CuriousLurker  Oct 1, 2016 • 2:05:02pm

Loss of all that revenue was my first thought, and they get a LOT of it from minorities. According to teh DoJ report linked to below, in Ferguson:

• 67% of the population is African American
• 85% of people subjected to vehicle stops are African American
• 90% of people issued citations are African American
• 93% of people arrested are African American

I would imagine things have changed significantly 19 or so months since the report was issued. If you’ve never read the DoJ report, here’s an example of the sort of crap the citizens of Ferguson had to endure for years (putting it behind a spoiler tag to prevent the comment from being ginormous)—read it and tell me who wouldn’t have a negative attitude toward police in that environment:

Even relatively routine misconduct by Ferguson police officers can have significant consequences for the people whose rights are violated. For example, in the summer of 2012, a 32-year-old African-American man sat in his car cooling off after playing basketball in a Ferguson public park. An officer pulled up behind the man’s car, blocking him in, and demanded the man’s Social Security number and identification. Without any cause, the officer accused the man of being a pedophile, referring to the presence of children in the park, and ordered the man out of his car for a pat-down, although the officer had no reason to believe the man was armed. The officer also asked to search the man’s car. The man objected, citing his constitutional rights. In response, the officer arrested the man, reportedly at gunpoint, charging him with eight violations of Ferguson’s municipal code. 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.

For further reading:

From the Atlantic: The Economics of Ferguson: Emerson Electric, Municipal Fines, Discriminatory Policing

DoJ Report: Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department (PDF)

See the charts at the WaPo: Justice Department findings in Ferguson

More from WaPo: Ferguson shows how a police force can turn into a plundering ‘collection agency’

Note the whining: As revenue from court fines drops, so does Ferguson’s budget

This is interesting: Ferguson Traffic Fines Reform Is Having A Surprising Side Effect


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