Thursday, August 21, 2014

Josh Voorhees — Everything That Went Wrong in Ferguson

Slate’s Jamelle Bouie has alreadydocumented the root causes of the tension between Ferguson’s largely black community and its predominantly white police force. But what has been missing from the debate over the police response in Ferguson is a day-by-day accounting of the specific law enforcement actions that exacerbated that pre-existing tension.

To be fair, police officers have a difficult and thankless job, and the vast majority perform admirably. On some nights in Ferguson, there have been more than 100 officers—from a number of different departments—patrolling the protests, and many have done no wrong. That said, in the days since Brown was killed, there has been a pattern of official missteps and misconduct.

Here is our best attempt at a Ferguson timeline, with law enforcement behavior that ranges from the rational to the possibly justified to the highly questionable to the downright unconstitutional.
Slate
Everything That Went Wrong in Ferguson
Josh Voorhees

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Ryan Harris said...
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Peter Pan said...

Cat got your tongue, Ryan?

Ryan Harris said...

I started noticing how many police brutality articles exist in the papers everyday and posted links but decided that it wasn't relevant to economics.
I think I lost interest in the primary topic as Piketty sent economics on another multi year Quixotic adventure, I guess I should stop reading and commenting altogether until I find the topic interesting or relevant again but...