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user-inactivated  ·  3608 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Discrimination in Ferguson: full extent of police bias laid bare in damning report

    Paraphrasing: This study is not just about bias. It is saying that the police officers are picking on the poor people who are going to be outside more, who are going to be more easy to pick on, and so on, and pushing them further into poverty and debt in order to fund their police department and get the city more money.

Ferguson and the Modern Debtor's Prison: https://hubski.com/pub?id=173699

We knew all of this already. That phrase - "modern debtor's prison" - has really stuck with me, because it perfectly describes what's happening. The poor get trapped in what amounts to a zip code-wide debtor's prison. If there's one technological advance I really hope for, it's ubiquitous cheap transportation, so that lack of economic mobility can be a thing of the past.