In all honesty, has the city of Ferguson destroyed itself?

In all dishonesty, yes

that town will always need a liquor store

Not without some gentle prodding from your friendly DOJ officials.

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And most of the city has burn destroyed by rioters.

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According to the latest reports something like 70% of all citizens homes have been destroyed within the city limits.

Reports of at least a million people trapped in the Superdome are floating around.

I think it's safe to say they didn't do themselves any favors as far as attracting businesses and new permanent residents. That's much more important in determining their future than police effectiveness IMO, but that will hurt also.

I'm sure there wasn't a lengthy waitlist to move to Ferguson anyway, but whatever they did have to offer has pretty much been cancelled out.

Seriously, who the hell would want to move to Ferguson?

I can't imagine it was very nice before this


We aren't losing out on much

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Just curious if anyone thinks life will go back to normal over there

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Exactly what do you think was "normal" there?

I posted it on the political board- Ferguson is in pretty bad shape with their money.

Property Values down 47%-

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with the average home selling for only $22,951 so far in 2015. Another negative indicator: in the eight and a half months leading up to Brown’s death, the average residential square foot in 2014 was selling for $45.82. In the eight and a half months since Brown’s passing, the average residential square foot in the city has sold for $24.11. That’s about a 47 percent downtick in one of real estate’s core indicators.

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Increased Expenses (Police OT)

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“The[city’s] response to the unrest, as well as other related matters, has resulted in significant, unanticipated expenditures,” reads the city’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for 2014."

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City Manager resigned-

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“The civil unrest also resulted in some lost revenues… At this time, the total impact of this event on the City’s revenues and expenses is not able to be estimated.”

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The court fees (which the DOJ said were racist) & property Tax (which have plummeted) make up 37% of the revenue collected by the city.

They need to hire an all black police force.

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Just curious if anyone thinks life will go back to normal over there. Seems like police will never be able to do their job with the amount of negativity the media is shoving in our face. The citizens seem to protest everyday. And most of the city has burn destroyed by rioters.

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By "back to normal" do you mean issuing almost two arrest warrants per year for each person that lives there and having active warrants for 75% of its populace?

To understand some of the distrust of police that has fueled protests in Ferguson, Mo., consider this: In 2013, the municipal court in Ferguson — a city of 21,135 people — issued 32,975 arrest warrants for nonviolent offenses, mostly driving violations.

---Sometimes in reporting a story, it's easy to use an exaggerated adjective to compare injustice today to an injustice experienced at some other difficult period of human history. Now that the full DOJ report on Ferguson has been released, though, it's increasingly clear that the sick conflation of racism, the American profit-motive, and an abusive use of the criminal justice system were used to create a police state of historic proportions in this small Missouri town.---

NPR


Not just parking tickets, Ferguson averaged 567 non-traffic related court cases per 1,000 residents—far and away the highest of any town in the state and more than twice as much as the town with the second highest average. To put that into perspective, the city of St. Louis had 80 non-traffic court cases per 1,000 residents and that's actually above the state average for Missouri.

Daily Kos


The cops and members of the judicial system should be publicly horsewhipped before being fired...to set an example for the rest of the country.