It’s Still ‘Show Me’ the Money [themarshallproject.org]
Nearly four years have passed since a 28-year-old white police officer shot and killed Michael Brown on the streets of Ferguson , the working-class suburb near St. Louis. Civil unrest, a militarized police presence, and unrelenting national publicity have brought energy and organized introspection to long-festering policing and justice issues. Ferguson may have been ground zero, but evidence of a wide range of police and judicial abuses extended broadly to suburban municipalities surrounding...