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Saturday, 19 September 2015

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Missouri Governor Jay Nixon's "Ferguson Commission" has released its report, which includes 198 "calls to action." The most important of those "calls" involve the commission's recommendations for police departments and municipal courts to be merged into regional police departments and regional courts.

According to the commission's website, "The Ferguson Commission is an independent group appointed by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon on November 18, 2014, to conduct a 'thorough, wide-ranging and unflinching study of the social and economic conditions that impede progress, equality and safety in the St. Louis region.'" The commission was formed by the governor in the wake of riots and unrest following the shooting death of Michael Brown. It can make recommendations, but it has no authority to enforce them.

Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Brown on August 9, 2014. The shooting sparked protests and riots spreading from Ferguson to the rest of the country and led to increased interest in the "Black Lives Matter" campaign, which has called for the murder of police officers and white people.

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