You've got to check out this AP story about the tiny town of Jericho, Arkansas. What do you do when you're a small-town police department that's unable to pay the loans on your police cruisers? Set up a permanent speed trap in the center of town and nab motorists who don't slow down to the town's depressed speed limit quickly enough for $150 each.
What do you do when the town's fire chief shows up in court to complain to the judge about the speed trap? Shoot him. Since the shooing, the police force has been disbanded, the city hall shut down, and the county sheriffs are looking for where all the cash from the traffic fines disappeared to.
Certainly there are a lot of well-trained professional officers out there, but some of them are just thugs with badges.
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Quick News Stories
Lots of little stories today.
- Reposted from my girlfriend's blog, Radioactive Quill:
So apparently you can be arrested for not appreciating it when a police officer shows up at your house and demands proof that you live there.
Provided you're a Black man, of course. I rather suspect that very few police officers would have the stones to do this to a white man.
Here is the statement by Professor Gates' lawyer. I'm really not sure why he didn't include a threat along the lines of, "I'm going to sue the city for $100 million." I would.
- Reposted from a friend's facebook page, a UF law student:
It's truly amazing that the erosion of racial and sexual bigotry is being accompanied by a revival of religious bigotry. Do people have an innate need to exclude and suppress the "other" that isn't being met now that racism and sexism have become fringe?
If we're discussing founders' intent, why did we include guarantees of religious equality in the First Amendment, while we didn't get around to race until the Fourteenth, or sex until the Nineteenth?
If we're discussing founders' intent, why did we include guarantees of religious equality in the First Amendment, while we didn't get around to race until the Fourteenth, or sex until the Nineteenth?
- A congressman from a district not far from where I live is a crazy birther.
- Good news: Obama is turning up the heat on obstructionist Democrats.
- Molecular developmental biology!
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