Ferguson police chief stays on the job after federal report

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Ferguson police chief stays on the job after federal report
By JIM SALTER, Associated Press | March 6, 2015 | Updated: March 6, 2015 5:05pm

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson was still on the job Friday, two days after a government report blasted his beleaguered department for years of racial profiling, and the mayor refused to speculate about the chief's future, saying his role was not to "just chop heads."

Meanwhile, three Ferguson employees implicated in racist emails exposed by that report are now gone from their jobs, the mayor said. One was identified as a city court clerk.

Calls for Jackson's removal were renewed again this week after the Justice Department cleared Darren Wilson, the white former Ferguson officer who shot Michael Brown, of federal civil rights charges in the death of the 18-year-old, who was black and unarmed.

A second report released simultaneously found patterns of racial profiling, bigotry and profit-driven law enforcement and court practices in the St. Louis suburb that has come to represent the tension between minorities and American police nationwide.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/AP-NewsBreak-Ferguson-leaders-DOJ-officials-to-6118926.php

[Hoppy]

1. Find a municipal court that isn't based on fund raising.

Ferguson is just more blatant.

Of course the forfeiture bullshit was an even more extreme example of law enforcement for fun and profit.

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. A despicable racist extortionist

I hope Holder shuts down the whole violent street gang.

[cloudbase]

3. He knows enough about the mayor and city manager

to feel pretty secure in his job.

[2naSalit]

4. I suspect that this is

his way of challenging Holder who is black and seen by this asshole as inferior. I hope Holder and his successor dismantle the whole police force as he suggested he might earlier today.

[Gore1FL]

5. I tend to lean towards him playing CYA.

I don't think he is competent enough to piece together a conscience challenge.

[fredamae]

6. Then the question

I have is: Are "we" serious about resolving the problem if we can't remove "people" like this from office?
Or am I missing something here?