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Many of the police departments in St. Louis County, Missouri where the death of Michael Brown sparked weeks of unrest have adopted making money as a "grossly inappropriate" mission and abandoned community-oriented policing, a new study has concluded.
"It is a dysfunctional and dangerous situation that cannot be sustained," the Washington-based Police Executive Research Forum wrote in the highly critical report issued Monday.
"We have never before encountered what we saw in parts of St. Louis County," Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the forum, said in a statement.
The group was retained by a non-profit called Better Together in the wake of the Aug. 9 shooting of Brown, an unarmed teen, in Ferguson.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/st-louis-policing-system-dangerous-study-finds-n353426
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)of shaking down the citizenry wouldn't work? Except anyone with two firing synapses to rub together.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)thank you.
Some of the issues are very local, some of them, just from a scan, are somewhat national.
underpants
(182,877 posts)St. Louis MO
Baltimore MD
Carson City NV
COINCIDENCE?
An independent city or independent town is a city or town that does not form part of another general-purpose local government entity (such as a county).
Virginia counties and cities are not joined in any way. Of the 41 Independent Cities in the US, 38 are in Virginia.
pintobean
(18,101 posts)not the City Of St. Louis.
Thanks