Road pirates and revenue generators for the city. That's what the main duty of the police has been for quite some time now. For proof of this, let's see what the NYPD is forcing it's officers to do according to the NY Post:
Throughout the city, precincts are being ordered to hand up to borough commanders “activity sheets” indicating the number of arrests and summonses per shift, sources told The Post.
“Police officers around the city are now threatened with transfers, no vacation time and sick time unless they write summonses,” one union source said.
“This is the same practice that caused officers to be labeled racist and abusers of power.”More @ Resister In The Rockies
SOP, pretty much everywhere. I lived in Bloomington IL in the early 80s. The police were in a contract dispute with the city and since they couldn't strike they just stopped writing tickets. It didn't take long for the city to see things their way, but you didn't want to be driving through Bloomington for a while after that, as it soon became obvious that part of the deal was that the cops would make up for lost time..
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Thanks and I imagine.
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ReplyDeleteI thought they already did this.
the stats on Ferguson arrests are jaw-dropping. Of course you can look at it two ways; the place is full of "criminals" are the laws are so onerous that everyone is a criminal 40x over. or there is no respect for rule of law?
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there aren't enough property owners to fund property tax extortion and coffers of the stasi need to be funded somehow.
the stats on Ferguson arrests are jaw-dropping.
DeleteDuring the recent episodes or all the time?
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there aren't enough property owners to fund property tax extortion and coffers of the stasi need to be funded somehow.
Evidently.
Previous to recent events. Ill try and find where i read it.
DeleteThanks and I guess there should be statistics which we could compare.
DeleteI don't see this as racial profiling since it is a matter of record that blacks far exceed their numbers in all crimes.
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This isn't the article, I had read something on a blog that I can't remember which one, but this sums it up:
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>>>"Some of the towns in St. Louis County can derive 40 percent or more of their annual revenue from the petty fines and fees collected by their municipal courts. A majority of these fines are for traffic offenses, but they can also include fines for fare-hopping on MetroLink (St. Louis’s light rail system), loud music and other noise ordinance violations, zoning violations for uncut grass or unkempt property, violations of occupancy permit restrictions, trespassing, wearing “saggy pants,” business license violations and vague infractions such as “disturbing the peace” or “affray” that give police officers a great deal of discretion to look for other violations. In a white paper released last month (PDF), the ArchCity Defenders found a large group of people outside the courthouse in Bel-Ridge who had been fined for not subscribing to the town’s only approved garbage collection service. They hadn’t been fined for having trash on their property, only for not paying for the only legal method the town had designated for disposing of trash.
“These aren’t violent criminals,” says Thomas Harvey, another of the three co-founders of ArchCity Defenders. “These are people who make the same mistakes you or I do — speeding, not wearing a seatbelt, forgetting to get your car inspected on time. The difference is that they don’t have the money to pay the fines. Or they have kids, or jobs that don’t allow them to take time off for two or three court appearances. When you can’t pay the fines, you get fined for that, too. And when you can’t get to court, you get an arrest warrant.”
Thanks, I understand, but I had a manager who would never go to court for insane reasons and invariably got arrested. Just stupid.
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