Ferguson Commission Calls for Regionalizing Police and Courts
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon’s “Ferguson Commission” has released its report, which includes 198 “calls to action.” The most important of those “calls” involve the commission’s recommendations for police departments and municipal courts to be merged into regional police departments and regional courts. According to the commission’s website, “The Ferguson Commission is an independent group appointed by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon on November 18, 2014, to conduct a ‘thorough, wide-ranging and unflinching study of the social and economic conditions that impede progress, equality and safety in the St. Louis region.’” The commission was formed by the governor in the wake of … Continue reading Ferguson Commission Calls for Regionalizing Police and Courts