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

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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.