"How does your state rank for integrity?" The top three all received C's.

[pantsonfire]

The Center for Public Integrity

How does each state rank for transparency and accountability? The State Integrity Investigation used extensive research to grade the states based on the laws and systems they have in place to deter corruption. Use the interactive to see how states scored overall and explore how they performed in each of the 13 categories.

[bbgrunt]

1. that's a pretty sad indictment of states, but I fear any grading of the federal system would be

not any better.

[etherealtruth]

2. My state oversaw (orchestrated) the poisoning of an entire city ....

.... and attempted to cover it up. This just highlights the absence of integrity.

Michigan is deservedly ranked 50.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. Hey, it's just one city, and its population is mostly ...

... Democrats.

Snyder cares, of course, about diverting blame.

[Out of Time Man]

3. Link?

I'd love to delve into this further.

Granted, I could do a Google search, but a link would be nonetheless appreciated

[pinboy3niner]

4. Click on the map. :) nt

[pantsonfire]

13. Yeah, I'll map/make that clearer in the future...n/t

[Kalidurga]

5. well that explains why people think the government doesn't work

cuz in too many cases it doesn't

[Scuba]

6. Total bullshit. Wisconsin got a "D" rating while clearly deserving an "F-".

[HereSince1628]

9. Very depressing that most of the US shares same rank as WI

It'd be easier if I could think this is an outlier.

[Chan790]

10. Yeah, I have to question their assessment basis.

CT is 3rd in the nation with a C-...except that CT is actually beset by terrible political corruption. (I'd know, my mother is an official on the local ethics commission and an investigatory party on local issues to the state ethics commission in Hartford. Both have full dockets.)

On top of that, we have something like 12 former mayors of major cities currently in or released from prison for corruption, a former governor convicted of corruption, his chief of staff in prison for accepting bribes on the governor's behalf, and the coup d' grace of any assumption of ethics: a former US Senate candidate and mayor of Waterbury who while under surveillance on suspicion of taking bribes was not only caught accepting illegal cash...he used that cash to pay a woman from out of state to transport her under-12y.o. daughter and niece to CT so he could rape them in his office in City Hall. He'd been doing so for years--did I mention that this was all going on while he was the GOP candidate in a US Senate race?

So...CT isn't so great at not being corrupt. We've just gotten good at punishing the corrupt politicians after-the-fact. Sometimes, way too after-the-fact.

[pantsonfire]

16. This is one study.....love to compare if you know of others...n/t

[floppyboo]

7. Thanks! Great interactive! nt

[Dustlawyer]

8. Texas gets a "D-"? If it were not for an "A" state finance we would have the "F" we so

richly deserve. We rank in the 40's for everything to do with elections and 48 in public access to information. They hide all of the election crap that they use to keep us from going purple/blue. Judicial accountability we should be 50th. If you win a verdict for an individual, the defense knows they can overturn it at the state Supreme Court which rules against individuals in favor of corporations almost 95% of the time. There is no justice in this state except what's for sale!

[Octafish]

12. Michigan - 50th!

Last place.

[Blue_In_AK]

14. This isn't right at all.

Alaska proudly ranks number 7 among the most corrupt states. How are they giving us a C?


Ed. What??? They're putting Alaska at the "top of the heap"? Maybe it's because they're so transparently corrupt and we all know about it.

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Illinois Got A "D"?

With 5 ex-governors doing jail time in my life time and the two most crooked didn't go because they didn't get caught? (Thompson and Edgar.)

With a SoS who, when he died, was found to have dozens of shoe boxes full of cash in his closet?

With the Dailey's in Chicago and that cesspool of a city council?

A "D"?

And now with Rauner as governor.

No way. "F" all the way.