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

[sabrina 1]

74. I believe I said 'sweeping changes' not 'revolution' so that part of your post is irrelevant to me.

Those who got to the polls, obviously knew there were no warrants out on them, at least at that time. Otherwise they would not have been there, or would have been arrested.

I have explained why a majority of AAs are fearful of showing up at the polls in Ferguson. The DOJ report confirms that the system is so corrupt, so racist that AAs are targeted for tickets, and they even included examples of the corrupt way these tickets are handed out. And disproportionately targeted with warrants.

It's easy to say 'why didn't they vote' if you are not living there as an AA. When you live in a world where such fears not an everyday thing, it is hard to imagine it for some people.

The system is beyond repair at this point. And until we get more than just a report on what people mostly knew already, it will remain that way.

Which is why I said that 'sweeping changes will have to be made' and I didn't see any action to be taken in the report.

I read some of the emails from these cops, and to say are sickening is putting it mildly. Yet, not one of them, as the report notes, were ever disciplined or warned in fact the racism goes all the way to their superiors.

In order to be able to vote safely in that place, AAs would need protection if they are among those who have warrents out on them, which is a majority. And as the report details, in many cases there was no violation of any law in order for them to be ticked.

Imo, the whole department should be disbanded as was the last PD Wilson worked for. Then start from the ground up with non-racist officers. Actually they could start by suspending every moron who wrote any of those hate emails.