Prejudice fostered between parents, tensions created between them and schools, cooperation extinguished with a load of petty fines, and for what?
The Washington Post's Radley Balko published a lengthy investigation of municipalities' practices in St . Louis Countyin 2014, finding that some towns there derived 40percentt or more of their annual revenue from the petty fines and fees collected by their municipal courts.
"Some of the towns in St . Louis Countycan derive 40percentt or more of their annual revenue from the petty fines and fees collected by their municipal courts.
Jong Jo, secretary of North Korea's UN mission, told NBC New York there's no way his country could owe that much in petty fines.
"Some of the towns in St . Louis Countycan derive 40% or more of their annual revenue from the petty fines and fees collected by their municipal courts," Radley Balko wrote in a reported-opinion piece on municipal courts for the Washington Post.
Critics say the suffocating cycles of petty arrests, fines and incarceration that had ensnared this woman are unconstitutional.
Harry Harris, 28, was arrested June 20 on outstanding warrants for violating a promise to appear in court or pay a fine, petty theft, grand theft and hit and run.
From petty thieves and fine-dodgers to drunk-drivers and outright murderers, "diplomatic immunity" has been the cry of a rogues' gallery of accused international miscreants plunged into hot water overseas.
These distinctions may seem fine or petty but they matter because the five-a-day campaign has tapped into the trend for a smoothification of food.
The band's style hasn't changed appreciably, but Mr. Petty has written some fine, terse vignettes that evoke the sort of seamy Los Angeles milieu that was the mystery writer Raymond Chandler's specialty.
That's $1,400 a head, roughly the same as the fine for petty theft.
