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This article is bizarre. ProPublica really took four trips to a town of 220 people with > four journalists toting notebooks and a video camera, driving around
by ahepp 3y ago
This article is bizarre. ProPublica really took four trips to a town of 220 people with
> four journalists toting notebooks and a video camera, driving around town, flying a drone overhead, watching police officers wait for speeders.
and all they could dig up is "the mayor shouldn't be the judge of this traffic court"?
Sure. It's a town of 200 people. On the scale of abuses of power going on in hick towns, this doesn't even register.
Is this really what "holding power to account" looks like?
- skulk 3y agoSo because there are only 220 of them, they don't matter? Sure, propublica has bigger fish to fry but I appreciate this look into a community and power structure that we might never ever get to see otherwise.