Jackson Jambalaya

It's quite easy to screw over the citizenry of MS. Not so much with the Feds. Maybe the silver lining in all of this is that the holiday roadblock
gestappo racket will come to a screeching hault. My brother from Texas gets harassed every year during Christmas. And for all you SJW's that think only the black populace is harrased-he's a pudgy, white good ole boy that's a teacher who drives a truck. So, there's that.

@ 935. You are correct! The blocks have nothing to do with public safety and everything to do with revenue.

And knowing the depths of their deceit, and the financial hit that would directly result to the hardworking taxpayers of Mississippi, DPS worked extensively to keep their incompetence, and deceit, safely hidden from the Mississippi public.

Can the entire State of Mississippi be charged with "lack of institutional control" by the feds? All three branches, and it's "flagship" university (i.e. Plantation Oxford) need a full out enema.

I wonder if DPS will in turn try to get the money back from the local police departments.

Mississippi's "state" revenue is 42% Federal dollars.

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/politicalledger/2017/07/25/mississippi-federal-revenue/509246001/

If someone with some backbone would just start doing some serious investigation into ALL it's agencies, you would find a foul stink throughout every branch of it's government. We're talking about BILLIONS of dollars that the Oxford Plantation is trying to concentrate into it's greedy hands, while throwing the entire state's citizenry face down in a cotton field.

Let the Department Heads serve some jail time. That would put a stop to it.

It took the governor seven years to fire Santa Cruz. How quickly do any of you suspect he will even acknowledge THIS situation? All the gov wants is an 85 mph back-seat ride to whatever his destination today is.

Many states have an Inspector General. Not gonna happen here.

The federal government is way too big. We need to ween state and local governments off of getting so much federal money. At the same time ween off farmers, energy producers, oil companies, poor folks, etc, etc. Pay less federal taxes and more state taxes.
We still might have state agencies stealing, but at least stealing from their own state. If we did that we have to pay one less layer of bureaucrats to administer this. Secondly the states would be free to do things in different ways and learn from each other's mistakes as was designed in the constitution.

Kingfish - select all images with roads signs. Something is really wack about that.

Our current Governor has had more Department Head mismanagement during his reign than any other. He appoints incompetent people and refuses to remove the corrupt ones. Epps, Santa Cruz...

So M. Fisher is hired to navigate the mess at the prison. Now he is sent to clean up the mess at DHS. Every damn trooper needs to be on the road. Patrol the interstates around Jackson and ticket and arrest these fools. Troopers have no business moving into an office taking on administrative roles. Sorry, but they are all incompetent fuck ups other than patrolling and fighting crime. The current head trooper can't even speak English correctly when conducting an interview. Many of these positions are doled out to blacks so the office can be racially balanced. One big shithole of a mess.

@11:47, you are correct. There are far too many people in Mississippi who have power that shouldn't. And that's both inside and outside of the state government. If they can succeed in keeping the populace poor and ignorant then they can pass laws, govern and make shady deals to pass money down the line and fil,their pockets. The only way you can do this is to skirt the law and we know now profession is better at that than anyone in ALL professions.

So let's raise fuel taxes, take that money and declare you spent it on highways but somehow the legislature had to have some of it to fund education..... but wait, didn't Mississippi legalize gambling in the '90's under Kirk with the money going towards education? And we still come up short? 155 school districts? And we buy into it every year knowing we have a dumb population. Every state agency is dirty! Even the one that COLLECTS it with Gestapo tactics.

looking forward to labor day weekend to see if DPS put on another publicity campaign like "click it or ticket"

I've driven most every highway in the delta in the past six days and never saw one trooper. Not one.

This must be what they learn in those extra weeks at "trooper school"...waste of time and money

I recently got a ticket from a trooper on the Natchez Trace --- total waste of law enforcement resources.

Why is MHP working the Trace? They should be out on Mississippi's highways enforcing the speed limit! If they have enough manpower to help the park rangers, then they have enough highway patrol troopers to patrol our highways. therefore we don't need another trooper school! The Natchez Trace is a federal highway - when our troopers write a ticket, where does that money go - to the feds or the state of Mississippi?

6:34, you mentioned trooper and law enforcement in the same sentence, I'm sure that was an oversight. Does the Mississippi highway safety patrol have law enforcement officers??

@2:34 - our state auditor is supposed to fill that role, but the OSA has been weaponized against political opponents. David Huggins has entirely too much power.

The reason why you can't find a Trooper (s) on the highways is because that have all been in Biloxi escorting all the Legislators around. There was a Harrison County Deputy shot down there but was not caught - might have been nice to have those Troopers on the highways where they are supposed to be instead babysitting the Legislators and the Lt Governor. Why does the LT Governor need 4 state vehicles and drivers at his house anyway - oh - one for him, one for his wife and the other two for each child? He is really cutting back on expenses - just wait until he becomes Governor!