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хмм, занятная статья,
via [livejournal.com profile] kuzimama

"In Alabama, a circuit court judge, Hub Harrington, wrote a blistering opinion three years ago asserting that the Shelby County Jail had become a kind of "debtors' prison" and that the court system had devolved into a "judicially sanctioned extortion racket." This pattern leads to a cruel paradox: One arm of the state is paying a large sum to lock up a person who can't pay a small sum owed to a different arm of the state. The result? Bigger state deficits. As the director of the Brennan Center's Justice Program put it, "Having taxpayers foot a bill of $4,000 to incarcerate a man who owes the state $745 or a woman who owes a predatory lender $425 and removing them from the job force makes sense in no reasonable world."

When the poor come to understand that they are likely to be detained and fined for comically absurd crimes, it can't be a surprise to the police that their officers are viewed with increasing distrust. In this environment, running away from a cop is not an act of suspicion; it's common sense."

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/police-shootings-traffic-stops-excessive-fines

такое более менее везде происходит, т.е. если структура по финансированию зависит от какого интересного контекста, то долг этих структур создать контекст, под который надо доить гос фонды, и потому в местах типа Фергюсона в контекст и угодит 2/3 населения.

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