re: #94 Dark_Falcon

You read Radley Balko’s expose’ about the St. Louis metro area, I presume? Traffic tickets are a racket there, pure and simple.

As for why the Justice Department does not intervene, frankly its both a time, staffing and funding issue, and a Federalism issue. The Civil Rights division doesn’t want to get involved in a big sprawling case that they might not win.

On the other hand, letting the locals do as they please because the corruption is so widespread is hardly an appealing option.

Edited to add: By now, I think the Feds would be more than justified in handing out some serious ultimatums to state and local officials in MO to clean up their act or face having the Feds do it for them.