“In North St. Louis County, the most organized groups are white homeowners who have been in the same neighborhood since the 1970s, along with police officers and municipal employees who benefit from the status quo, and they have been able to dominate local elections.” -Washington Post, Is Segregation the Problem in Ferguson? “A majority of these fines are for traffic offenses, but they can also include fines for fare-hopping on MetroLink (St. Louis’s light rail system), loud music and other noise ordinance violations, zoning violations for uncut grass or unkempt property, violations of occupancy permit restrictions, trespassing, wearing “saggy pants,” business license violations and vague infractions such as “disturbing the peace” or “affray” that give police officers a great deal of discretion to look for other violations.” -Washington Post, How St. Louis County MO Profits from Poverty "The Garner killing must lead to major changes in policy, particularly in the use of “broken windows” policing ... The department must find a better way to keep communities safe than aggressively hounding the sellers of loose cigarettes." -New York Times, Eric Garner, Daniel Pantaleon and Lethal Police Tactics. "We miss the point that we are wasting an enormously powerful reservoir of resources in these [historically African American] neighborhoods." -Todd Clear Provost, Rutgers School of Criminal Justice "[At the listening sessions], it hasn't just been people digging in their heels saying `we don't want to spend money on the jail!' If you listen to those hearings, they're saying, `we need to take care of our community.'" -Howard Zehr Distinguished Professor of Restorative Justice EMU Center for Justice and Peacebuilding A federally funded Job Guarantee program was a central theme articulated by Martin Luther King and Bayard Rustin (the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington...”) -Fadhel Kaboub, President, Binzager Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. http://statlive.org/building-justice/petition.html People's Day March and Program Noon, 1/19/2015 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way and S. Main. Build better communities, not more jails! “In North St. Louis County, the most organized groups are white homeowners who have been in the same neighborhood since the 1970s, along with police officers and municipal employees who benefit from the status quo, and they have been able to dominate local elections.” -Washington Post, Is Segregation the Problem in Ferguson? “A majority of these fines are for traffic offenses, but they can also include fines for fare-hopping on MetroLink (St. Louis’s light rail system), loud music and other noise ordinance violations, zoning violations for uncut grass or unkempt property, violations of occupancy permit restrictions, trespassing, wearing “saggy pants,” business license violations and vague infractions such as “disturbing the peace” or “affray” that give police officers a great deal of discretion to look for other violations.” -Washington Post, How St. Louis County MO Profits from Poverty "The Garner killing must lead to major changes in policy, particularly in the use of “broken windows” policing ... The department must find a better way to keep communities safe than aggressively hounding the sellers of loose cigarettes." -New York Times, Eric Garner, Daniel Pantaleon and Lethal Police Tactics. "We miss the point that we are wasting an enormously powerful reservoir of resources in these [historically African American] neighborhoods." -Todd Clear Provost, Rutgers School of Criminal Justice "[At the listening sessions], it hasn't just been people digging in their heels saying `we don't want to spend money on the jail!' If you listen to those hearings, they're saying, `we need to take care of our community.'" -Howard Zehr Distinguished Professor of Restorative Justice EMU Center for Justice and Peacebuilding A federally funded Job Guarantee program was a central theme articulated by Martin Luther King and Bayard Rustin (the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington...”) -Fadhel Kaboub, President, Binzager Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. http://statlive.org/building-justice/petition.html People's Day March and Program Noon, 1/19/2015 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way and S. Main. Build better communities, not more jails! “In North St. Louis County, the most organized groups are white homeowners who have been in the same neighborhood since the 1970s, along with police officers and municipal employees who benefit from the status quo, and they have been able to dominate local elections.” -Washington Post, Is Segregation the Problem in Ferguson? “A majority of these fines are for traffic offenses, but they can also include fines for fare-hopping on MetroLink (St. Louis’s light rail system), loud music and other noise ordinance violations, zoning violations for uncut grass or unkempt property, violations of occupancy permit restrictions, trespassing, wearing “saggy pants,” business license violations and vague infractions such as “disturbing the peace” or “affray” that give police officers a great deal of discretion to look for other violations.” -Washington Post, How St. Louis County MO Profits from Poverty "The Garner killing must lead to major changes in policy, particularly in the use of “broken windows” policing ... The department must find a better way to keep communities safe than aggressively hounding the sellers of loose cigarettes." -New York Times, Eric Garner, Daniel Pantaleon and Lethal Police Tactics. "We miss the point that we are wasting an enormously powerful reservoir of resources in these [historically African American] neighborhoods." -Todd Clear Provost, Rutgers School of Criminal Justice "[At the listening sessions], it hasn't just been people digging in their heels saying `we don't want to spend money on the jail!' If you listen to those hearings, they're saying, `we need to take care of our community.'" -Howard Zehr Distinguished Professor of Restorative Justice EMU Center for Justice and Peacebuilding A federally funded Job Guarantee program was a central theme articulated by Martin Luther King and Bayard Rustin (the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington...”) -Fadhel Kaboub, President, Binzager Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. http://statlive.org/building-justice/petition.html People's Day March and Program Noon, 1/19/2015 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way and S. Main. Build better communities, not more jails! “In North St. Louis County, the most organized groups are white homeowners who have been in the same neighborhood since the 1970s, along with police officers and municipal employees who benefit from the status quo, and they have been able to dominate local elections.” -Washington Post, Is Segregation the Problem in Ferguson? “A majority of these fines are for traffic offenses, but they can also include fines for fare-hopping on MetroLink (St. Louis’s light rail system), loud music and other noise ordinance violations, zoning violations for uncut grass or unkempt property, violations of occupancy permit restrictions, trespassing, wearing “saggy pants,” business license violations and vague infractions such as “disturbing the peace” or “affray” that give police officers a great deal of discretion to look for other violations.” -Washington Post, How St. Louis County MO Profits from Poverty "The Garner killing must lead to major changes in policy, particularly in the use of “broken windows” policing ... The department must find a better way to keep communities safe than aggressively hounding the sellers of loose cigarettes." -New York Times, Eric Garner, Daniel Pantaleon and Lethal Police Tactics. "We miss the point that we are wasting an enormously powerful reservoir of resources in these [historically African American] neighborhoods." -Todd Clear Provost, Rutgers School of Criminal Justice "[At the listening sessions], it hasn't just been people digging in their heels saying `we don't want to spend money on the jail!' If you listen to those hearings, they're saying, `we need to take care of our community.'" -Howard Zehr Distinguished Professor of Restorative Justice EMU Center for Justice and Peacebuilding A federally funded Job Guarantee program was a central theme articulated by Martin Luther King and Bayard Rustin (the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington...”) -Fadhel Kaboub, President, Binzager Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. http://statlive.org/building-justice/petition.html People's Day March and Program Noon, 1/19/2015 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way and S. Main. Build better communities, not more jails!