The Rude Pundit - Random Thoughts Reading Through the DOJ's Ferguson Police Report

[TheKentuckian]

10. A completely disturbing and unacceptable mess that is far from isolated to Ferguson

I haven't finished the report yet but it seems refreshingly honest in description of problems but to anchored to the status quo on solutions for there to be any really substantive changes in how police deal with the public.

I'm getting the idea the "solution" is to keep doing what is being done now but to do it better. I hope I've not gathered it and deep changes are really advanced.

Ferguson as a municipality needs either to be disbanded or totally reloaded at minimum. It is not just a cop problem, it may not even really be a majority cop issue as they appear to have been tasked, severely pressed to squeeze the fuck out of the black community, and accountable if they didn't.
The corruption of the government seems to be the dog wagging the tail of the counter constitutional, racist, highly abusive police force.

It is really bad and completely toxic but the worst part is it isn't isolated to Ferguson but rather highlighted there, we as many of us have been saying the whole time have a national crisis here.
A crisis that I fear it is beyond unlikely anyone will seriously try to rectify beyond bandaid type measures to massage the situation, systematic reform having moved beyond the imagination much less the comfort zone of the upper classes and white Americans in general and the politicians in particular.