traffic tickets. you know, in missouri, after ferguson, that s what happened. municipalities should not rely on traffic tickets for half their budgets. so there are smart state policy decisions that can happen here, and really importantly, states need to fund government through fair taxes and not through preying on motorists, and those kind of reforms need to happen in alabama and elsewhere. you mentioned taxpayers. of course alabama is exactly the kind of place where republican politicians try and rabble rouse by saying the democrats are going to defund the police. in this case, that would be a wise move that would benefit even republican voters. i mean why would anyone think that a tiny town of 1,200 people with no crime needs a kind of what was that? a s.w.a.t. vehicle, a tank that we saw there? right. they re writing tickets to raise money to pay the salaries of more police to write more tickets. nobody is safer because of this.
they are writing tickets. are you seriously writing a fine? this is ridiculous. this is america. is it going to be like australia? australia? are you going to be oh my god. sit on the floor and drink water like we are at a restaurant? lawrence: i m glad all the other crime is solved. charlie hurt and mollie hemingway are up next. o
should not be driving your car. do offices ask for immigration information when making arrests or writing tickets? i had a meeting with the chief and the question was asked three times and there were stops involving human trafficking where questions had to be asked so this is not common. it is something a couple councilmembers are grandstanding on, absolutely inappropriate the way they approached this topic. rob: what to be counsel have done is not only try to limit arrests on marijuana violations but decrease the minorities that are arrested but also things like petty theft. what do you say to that idea? they talk about petty theft, criminal trespass. these are offenses where people,
arguments. so in your estimation does the presence of walmart in your town help or hurt your community? i think it s helped but they have an issue that i want them to deal with, and that is crime. we re going down there way too much and here soon we ll be writing tickets to walmart and the reason for the tickets is to offset their behavior. mayor dennis buckley. thanks so much for joining us. again, we ve reached out to walmart to be on the program. they declined. they did send us this statement and i want to read it again, in fairness. it says walmart has worked closely with local law enforcement officials and responded directly to their request by hiring an off-duty officer to be in the story designed to implement assistance. still to come, deflategate.
but i m always torn do the officers have a right to stop when a tail light is out? certainly. but as your other guests indicated, a lot of times it s a pretext for writing tickets, for meeting quotas for harassing people about other things. you ve got to keep that in mind that there s a quote, what you can do and there s quote, what really happens when it gets done. tom fuentes? that s true. it could be a pretext. you could have that. it s going to be important to see what officer slager s record is in terms of that what the department s record. i agree with all of that. but in this case all i have said is up until this point we don t see hostility, particularly racial hostility on the part of the officer. that comes later, he guns down mr. scott. we know that. but i m just saying up until now we don t see the evidence of that. you agree, john gaskin