Thursday, October 1, 2015

The Circle of Inequality

In the Ferguson documentary we are watching, an interesting point was brought up. In these certain cities in Missouri, they are so low on income that in order to stay up as a community, they make all their revenue giving tickets for no reason. A lot of the times, they also racial profile and mainly end up giving tickets to the minorities. The real question is how do you get out of this corrupt circle? These black people get tickets and while going to pay for their ticket, get another ticket and then get sent to jail for not paying for that ticket??? When is this system going to get fixed because there have been 3 people that have hung themselves because they have no way out in jail. As that's not enough, these cops continue to make their revenue on ticketing some of the same people over and over. It just seems as if there really is no way out of their situation, and this needs to be resolved. Overtime, people are just going to end up moving out and there is going to be a vacant city.

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