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NWA said it best: "Fuck the police." But look at the date... End-of-the-month quota-filling dragnet likely.

• slurry 13y ago
  You're getting downvoted for the first line, but the second line is the most insightful comment so far.
• talmand 13y ago
  No, it's worse than that, far worse. In hard times a city with a failing budget does many things to generate revenue. One of the easiest sources of revenue for a city is a series of laws that imply fines on people for actions that at the time is considered normal behavior. Often the reason given is for "public safety" or for "public goodwill" or other similar notions. New taxes is popular too, but if you live in a city that has legal issues with creating new taxes they suddenly institute new "fees". As more cities drown in their budgets you can expect more of this behavior from some cities. Not all of them will go down this road, but many will. You can expect, and we've already seen much of this, new ideas of generating revenue such as fines, fees, and/or taxes. All at the expense of the people that these revenues are supposed to somehow help.
  • walshemj 13y ago
    This the problem when you let local government have to many powers and set their own laws.
    • talmand 13y ago
      Not just local, but all governments. All governments over time build themselves up to a point that it can no longer be supported by society, nor itself, so that it eventually collapses. Then the people pick up the pieces, vow to never let that happen again for the sake of future generations, and then they go about doing it all over again.