{"id":258,"date":"2014-09-04T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2014-09-04T14:00:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T14:00:37","slug":"link-how-st-louis-county-profits-from-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"LINK: How St. Louis County Profits From Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot-2014-09-04-09.42.34.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot-2014-09-04-09.42.34-300x268.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2014-09-04 09.42.34\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot-2014-09-04-09.42.34-300x268.png 300w, https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot-2014-09-04-09.42.34.png 609w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>One of the most important jobs of journalism is to explain the way things work. Or, in the case of St. Louis County and its many municipalities, how they don&#8217;t work. Radley Balko explains it all in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2014\/09\/03\/how-st-louis-county-missouri-profits-from-poverty\/\">this long and hugely worthwhile Washington Post story<\/a>, which does a masterful job of making one feel the aggravating and humiliating context of the Ferguson demonstrations, as well as lining up a surprisingly bureaucratic and appalling series of villains. <\/p>\n<p>In this case, a history of white flight, a checkerboard of self-serving municipalities that rely on legal fines to pay for themselves, and the slow development of a social culture that results in outstanding bench warrants that stifle the efforts of citizens to get a job or job training, or most egregiously, to run their own businesses. <\/p>\n<p>Click the image to see the map of numbered municipalities larger. Each given its own stretch of highway from which to profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most important jobs of journalism is to explain the way things work. Or, in the case of St. Louis County and its many municipalities, how they don&#8217;t work. Radley Balko explains it all in this long and hugely worthwhile Washington Post story, which does a masterful job of making one feel the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=258\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LINK: How St. Louis County Profits From Poverty<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,17,26,9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data","category-history","category-journalism","category-link","category-maps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot-2014-09-04-09.42.34.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}