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+City budgets on the brink now |
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+Weisser 7-11 |
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+CYBELE WEISSER. “State and city budget blues: Pressures keep piling up.” Associated Press. November 7, 2016. |
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+NEW YORK (AP) — It's not just Detroit and Puerto Rico with financial |
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+AND |
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+delay coming to terms with it, the worse it's going to be." |
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+Indemnification means municipalities pay for civil lawsuits—kills budgets |
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+Prall ‘14 |
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+Derek Prall (Derek Prall is a professional journalist who has held numerous positions with a variety of print and online publications including the New Jersey Herald. He is a 2008 graduate of Furman University holding bachelor's degrees in both English Literature and Communications Studies), 12-10-2014, "Who pays for police misconduct?," American City and County, http://americancityandcounty.com/law-enforcement/who-pays-police-misconduct//KOHS-AG |
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+Cases like those of Michael Brown and Eric Garner have communities abuzz about police misconduct |
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+AND |
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+year, and ThinkProgress reports the city is already budgeting for the fallout. |
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+Cities rely on fining to generate revenue in the event of budget problems – results in systemic racism and a breakdown in police community relations. |
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+Kopf ‘16 |
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+Dan Kopf Masters in Economics from the London School of Economics, June 24, 2016, "The Fining of Black America," Priceonomics, https://priceonomics.com/the-fining-of-black-america/ |
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+In March 2010, years before Ferguson, Missouri, became known for sparking the |
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+do not exhibit as much excessive fining, even if they are poor. |