A young man died doing his job. Too bad his unfortunate, avoidable death won’t motivate change.
Three Sad Trends
Category: Criminal Justice Reform
Enablers
During the bleakest nights in Ferguson a few years back, men armed with assault rifles “protected” properties, most all businesses owned by white guys. More recently, a similar group descended on downtown Louisville. The group calls themselves the Oath Keepers… Read More …
Their Police
Back at the end of 1936 and into 1937 workers at a General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan held a sit-in strike. Michigan Governor Frank Murphy deployed the National Guard – not to break up the strike but to protect Read More …
Kavanaugh’s America
As we’ve seen with Donald Trump and his richly raised ilk, America is not here to help the struggling, no, the government’s job is to preserve wealth and privilege. The current Supreme Court isn’t there for most of us, it works for Brett and his kind.
Embarrassing Reality
True, most every cop will deny targeting old white people to offset embarrassing data. Yet pulling over more white folk is easier than changing perceptions, prejudice and tradition.
West County Democrats Meeting Report March 2019
From 1970 to the present, the number of people incarcerated in the United States has grown 500%, and this is the result of bad policy at all levels. The percent of the U.S. population in prison today, is six times greater than the next closest country. The percentage in Missouri is even higher than the national average. In fact, Missouri is now #1 in female incarceration in the country…We cannot continue on this trajectory.