When it comes to politicians getting busted for crooked deeds, three Deep South states and Kentucky have Chicago beat.
Lee Sigelman and John Sides have created a graph plotting the "total number of public corruption convictions from 1997 to 2006 per 100,000 residents." Here's the graph:
As Matthew Yglesias notes:
Lee Sigelman and John Sides have created a graph plotting the "total number of public corruption convictions from 1997 to 2006 per 100,000 residents." Here's the graph:
As Matthew Yglesias notes:As we can see here clearly, Illinois, though more corrupt than average, isn't close to the top. Louisiana is a lot more corrupt than Mississippi which is a lot more corrupt than Kentucky which is substantially more corrupt than Alabama. After Alabama things get closer packed.
We should also point out that the entire South doesn't fare poorly: Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina acquit themselves well -- at least in terms of their politicians not getting caught.
Over 3-dozen Tennessee sheriffs were convicted of drug dealing in the 1980s. Now TN prosecutors obstruct citizens from filing criminal complaints against govt employees via grand juries and judicial commissioners, just like fed prosecutors.
December 25, 2008 12:04 PM | Reply
Policemen in Texas still from prisoners, usually that involves stilling money, shoes (like in my case) or other valuables such as gold chains, it might be understanble this practice in Texas, they earn half of what a cop in California makes.
December 13, 2009 12:30 AM | Reply