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Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what's goin' down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of government' gets done, and where we sat together in the park as the evening sky grew dark.

We begin in Kentucky, where the police department in Louisville is having a really bad year, and it's about to get even worse. From the Louisville Courier-Journal:

The charges themselves are ghastly. In one way or another, they appear to involve all of the city's law enforcement apparatus and a healthy portion of city government. And it's clear that the police department and city hall had the same initial reaction that every institution, from Penn State to the Roman Catholic Church to the Boy Scouts, had. They looked for a way to bury the evidence.

Almost 800,000 pieces of evidence? Somebody's going to jail behind this. And it's another example of the culture of impunity that grows within too much of law enforcement. Policing in this country needs to change, top to bottom, and if that makes "swing district" congresscritters uncomfortable, then that's the way it goes.

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We move along to Utah, where the pandemic is spiking, as it is everywhere, and where we once again find our fellow citizens holding out against the jackboots of public health. From the St. George News:

This, however, seems a little nuts.

Is this a thing now? People deliberately spreading the 'Rona because FREEDOM! or something? Apparently, the Department of Justice thought so, at least theoretically. Are a huge number of our fellow citizens absolutely unconscionable morons? Experts are divided.

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We move on to Florida, where Governor Ron DeSantis seems determined to cast the deciding "yes" vote in the survey mentioned above. In addition to hiring some third-rate sports blogger from Ohio to do "data analysis" on the pandemic in Florida, DeSantis is also taking some action against people who say mean things to him on the street, as the South Florida Sun-Sentinel explains.

Almost none of this authoritarian swill is constitutional. (The no-bail provision belongs in North Korea.) And immunizing drivers who run down protestors in the street?

And that's not all. DeSantis also proposed adjusting the state's Stand Your Ground law, the one that allowed George Zimmerman to kill Trayvon Martin and get away with it, to a point where they might as well rename it Kyle's Law, after freedom fighter Kyle Rittenhouse, The Kenosha Kid. From the Miami Herald:

There's serious competition for the title of The Next Trump, and DeSantis is only one of the favorites. That's what worries me.

And we conclude, as is our custom, in the great state of Oklahoma, where Blog Official Natural Gas Dowser Friedman of the Plains brings us the saga of yet another charter school outfit that's only in it for The Kids. From the Tulsa World:

The Oklahoma legislature, which never has been mistaken for the People's Liberation Army, is furiously demanding that the state's Department of Education be audited, and Governor Kevin Stitt has had no choice but to join the legislature in this demand.

The charter industry is a license to loot the public treasury unless strictly regulated. In fact, theoretically, if a kid with a brick in Florida behaved toward a liquor store the way that the charter sharpies behaved toward the Oklahoma taxpayers, Ron DeSantis would let you shoot him.

This is your democracy, America. Cherish it.

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This Is the Culture of Impunity That Grows Within Too Much of Law Enforcement - Esquire