re: #176 teleskiguy

So I’m re-reading Radley Balko’s expos on St. Louis County municipalities deriving much of their budgets from court fines and every town I came across in the article I looked at their Wikipedia page (there are 90 municipalities in St. Louis County).

Every Wikipedia entry about some municipality I read had a somewhat detailed description of that municipality’s police force. Every. Single. One.

O_o

The saddest thing about making a single force for multiple communities is it would be St. Louis County Police. And they’ve shown that they’re as violent and corrupt as Ferguson. A complete no-win for residents.

I don’t know how to fix this horribly broken area, but I do know this: I’ll never go back to MO again.