{"id":9725,"date":"2015-05-30T11:42:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T15:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9725"},"modified":"2015-05-30T11:42:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T15:42:23","slug":"st-louis-co-towns-continue-to-treat-residents-like-atms-radley-balko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/05\/st-louis-co-towns-continue-to-treat-residents-like-atms-radley-balko.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;St Louis Co. Towns Continue to Treat Residents Like ATMs&#8221;: Radley Balko"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Hey man, people rarely beat on ATMs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026It isn\u2019t difficult to guess which groups of people are most likely to be affected by laws against walking in the street, wearing one\u2019s pants too low, or \u201cspending time idly.\u201d\u00a0It\u2019s also probably a lot easier to avoid citations for having toys lying about\u00a0(I\u2019m still a little surprised this could be illegal) if you have a nice long drive way, or trees or fences to conceal the front yard.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Post-Dispatch, Pagedale has increased non-traffic related citations by 500 percent in the last five years. Here\u2019s how this plays out for working class people:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2015\/05\/29\/st-louis-county-towns-continue-to-treat-residents-like-atms\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey man, people rarely beat on ATMs: \u2026It isn\u2019t difficult to guess which groups of people are most likely to be affected by laws against walking in the street, wearing one\u2019s pants too low, or \u201cspending time idly.\u201d\u00a0It\u2019s also probably a lot easier to avoid citations for having toys lying about\u00a0(I\u2019m still a little surprised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[171,46,77,181,51],"class_list":["post-9725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abuse-of-power-comes-as-no-surprise","tag-our-enemy-the-state","tag-prepare-for-life-in-capitalist-america-play-class-struggle-the-game","tag-radley-balko","tag-so-far-from-god-so-close-to-the-united-states"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;St Louis Co. 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