Eleven year old honor roll student put in solitary
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This article is about Brownsville-RGV.
Local government there is some of the worst nationally.
The FBI has been running a massive anti-corruption operation there for over a decade now that has found corruption from the Mayor to the County DA all the way to their Congressman [0][1][2].
It's sad because the people there are hardworking, but because a large portion of the RGV's population is undocumented or an immigrant and is littered with fiefdoms and multi-generational political families, it has been neglected. The principal mentioned in the article is herself a member of one of these multi-generational public servant families in RGV
[0] https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/South-Texas-a...
[1] https://www.npr.org/2015/07/06/413463836/corruption-on-the-b...
[2] https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/22/henry-cuellar-king-...
It's in the links.
A notable example was the Buffalo Billion scandal with bid rigging to open a tech campus in Albany for photovoltaic cell, nanotechnology, and semiconductor manufacturing. [0][1]
It was a legacy making project for Gov. Mario Cuomo (he started the precursor in the 90s) and his son Gov. Andrew Cuomo [1]
Albany was largely cleaned up after Cuomo "resigned" because there was a bottom-up revolt by millennial lawmakers and staffers working in Albany and on the Hill to coordinate a way to clean up Albany poltical culture [2]
You're Irish though, so I'd compare it to the corruption crackdown that happened in Ireland after the collapse of Anglo-Irish Bank and the very improper relations between builders, banking, and govt in Ireland in the 90s and 2000s.
[0] https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/201...
[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/07/after-scandals-and-...
[2] https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2021/0...
I’ve been arrested and taken to a detention center for simply refusing an order to detention without being given my write-up on the basis that being punished without being told about the infraction is wrong. In all, I was arrested and given a generic “Disturbing the Peace” style charge as a minor but, charged as an adult, because three weeks prior I had worn a jacket that was not on the list of school approved colors while in a poorly heated out-building. All because petit tyrants refused to honor the basic human right of telling the punished their crime.
These government schools and their seemingly unimpeachable administrators need reigned in as surely as the police and prosecutors. Whether they choose prosecution to cover for their weak egos or out of simple laziness, it’s unacceptable that they punt on problems and then invoke “Zero Tolerance” the second they’re expected to solve minor problems.
That's certainly a gross exaggerating but that went through my head when reading it. I didn't even know if this was about a case in the US. I just assumed it.
Of all the people involved in that decision and its execution, did anybody even had a fleeting thought of this being wrong?
Users don't have to explain why they flag an entry, but to my understanding it is usually because such users think that the entry attracts 'low quality comments', like bashing a whole nation state on scant grounds which inevitably causes the discussion to go down in flames.
I can understand this, but at the same time find it a pity that people can't have sensible discussions about sensitive topics. I find this story is one of those that deserve a better destiny than to be stomped away.
You've probably heard this before, but:
The USA is not a singular nation from the inside. There's a single foreign policy and a single military system and a single treaty negotiator, but on the inside it's 51+ jurisdictions, one of which isn't even based on the same underlying jurisprudence as the others ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Louisiana ).
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It's sad because the people there are hardworking, but because a large portion of the RGV's population is undocumented or an immigrant and is littered with fiefdoms and multi-generational political families, it has remained very poor despite having a decent port and oil economy
[0] https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/South-Texas-a...
[1] https://www.npr.org/2015/07/06/413463836/corruption-on-the-b...
[2] https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/22/henry-cuellar-king-...
(But some systems do seem to enable them)
It's always worth remembering the wide diversity in culture and social norms, much like you wouldn't consider Europe to have a single culture even though there is the EU.