NRO has a problem with law enforcement in Ferguson? Life is full of surprises, I guess.

The Injustice the DOJ Uncovered in Ferguson Wasn’t Racism

Basically, their claim is that what the DOJ found was reliance on a form of regressive taxation.

Totally ignoring the kind of case that provokes public ire most like the story Holder told about the basketball player, the author summarizes the result of the investigation as the discovery that Ferguson was making up tax shortfalls with heavy traffic fines.

Black people are disproportionately poor, and poor people get clobbered by this sort of thing not only because the fines are a bigger piece of their income but because if you can't pay the fine you get fined again, and if you can't pay that you may get arrested.

Unsurprisingly, the NRO author says the report does not unearth racism when probably he is entitled only to say it unearthed no particular evidence of racism.

But then rather surprisingly he says this sort of money-raising technique is unjust both because it rewards cops writing dishonest tickets and because it sticks it so fiercely to the poor.

Not the sort of complaint you expect from conservatives.