re: 2 Officers shot in Ferguson...Video in OP

Would you agree that the Washington, D.C., police force, which is majority black, is disproportionately arresting African Americans, based on disparate impact?

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They are horrible. Word of advice to anyone traveling to St. Louis. St. Ann includes the highway at the airport. DO NOT SPEED. They will literally have 12-15 cops lined up taking you down. Oh, and it's a double fine zone (WTF is that? It's not a construction zone or school zone. If you want to make a speeding ticket cost $500 instead of $70, just do it. Don't give it some BS name.)

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Most airports have this for a reason, people drive like absolute maniacs when they are late to the airport and think they could miss a flight.

I agree with you, but that doesn't matter under the legal theory of disparate impact, which Holder and crew have clung to in the Ferguson investigation.

Disparate impact means that if too many of a certain group are affected by government action (or inaction), NO MATTER HOW RIGHT THE INITIAL ACTION IS, it is "wrong" in the eyes of the law, and precedence under Civil Rights jurisprudence. It's total bullshite.

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Couldn't agree with you more about that. It's like they're own little playgrounds. What they forget is that real people (white or black) live in those playgrounds and their lives are affected in a real way when you have to pay $600 for your grass.

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Be honest, do they fine you $600 with ZERO warning? I highly doubt it that they come out one day, give zero warning and you get a $600 fine instantly. The city of Scottsdale fines something ridiculous like $500 a day but you get a 30 day notice and your grass has to be out of control.

I am sure the PD out there is crazy and I would hate them but even the nicest areas of the country fine you for things like out of control grass and speeding to the airport, its very normal and very easy to avoid the fines.

Just watching from a safe distance.

Oh come on, you're being disingenuous. Answer the question. The stats are right in your face.

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I would agree that blacks commit a disproportionate amount of crime resulting in being arrested much more than any other race.

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I haven't seen a study to that affect but if you say so, I'll take your word for it. What I have a problem with isn't the enforcement of more serious crimes. It's the bullshite charges of "manner of walking" or failure to obey/comply. Those are simply a license for a cop to say I don't like you, I'm going to arrest you even if you were doing nothing wrong. They either need to be re-written or taken off the books.

Oh, and don't think for a 2nd, that if the Chief doesn't bring in that revenue that he won't be out of a job. He will, the cities have become drunk on these fines and fees.

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I have no clue. I haven't read up on it.

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Of course not, because it doesn't fit your agenda. Just like how these protestors don't care to "read up up on" the AG report. Nobody wants to face the facts.

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Disparate impact means that if too many of a certain group are affected by government action (or inaction), NO MATTER HOW RIGHT THE INITIAL ACTION IS, it is "wrong" in the eyes of the law, and precedence under Civil Rights jurisprudence. It's total bullshite.

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But what leads to those numbers?

Could it be that a black kid walking back from school in the street gets stopped and arrested for "manner of walking" but my son who is white walks by a cop every single day of the week while he's walking in the middle of the street to school and the most the cop would do is wave?