“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!