Digory

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   by Digory 10y ago

   Right. It's more fair to say Americans buy really bad olive oil. But the standards for olive oil are usually somewhat subjective taste and visual standards. It's fair to say Kraft makes a lousy block of cheddar. But it'd a
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   by Digory 10y ago

   I read your table as 60m in county budgets, and another 16m+ in "other" (which is not necessarily the state budget). So to get the magnitude right, you'd take budgets for police + 75m for prosecutors at the county level, plu
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   by Digory 10y ago

   It's far more lopsided than it appears in those numbers. In Missouri, most prosecutions are handled by a county's Prosecuting Attorney's office, which are funded by each county's budget (largely property taxes). There ar
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   by Digory 10y ago

   The Governor is still the supreme executive, and the prosecutorial power is in the executive branch. The Attorney General is elected, but he's overseeing some work of the executive branch -- like the State Auditor or Secretary of Sta