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

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Well the department's 'Policing for Profits' WAS a problem and, rightly so, created a lot of resentment among the black community.

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Many many departments all across the nation have been Policing for Profits for years. It is well known and it doesn't create a problem for the P.D., county/parish, etc. The problem here is 67% of the community commits 90%+ percent of the crime. Our P.C. mentality simply doesn't want to admit this even though we have the statistics to prove it. To fix a problem you must first identify the problem and acknowledge it exists.

I skipped most of 5 pages but from what I'm seeing everyone is not going back to the origin to find the beginnings of the problem. In my business we used the fault tree analysis to determine the cause(s). Writing frickin tickets to pay the bills only proves their taxes aren't high or they spend too much.

Real estate prices have dropped 50% since Mike Brown's death. Regardless of what you think of the social issues, for property owners, the situation is as bad as it gets.