South Dakota is rife with sobriety checkpoints, racial profiling makes I-90 a civil rights black hole and police just recently were stopped from forcing catheters into the urethras of the accused.
Yet it's not just Rapid City where Republicans have failed their law and order mission.
Minnehaha County Sheriff Mike Milstead said the uptick in juvenile crimes is related to teens stealing weapons from unlocked vehicles. Milstead did say that it isn’t just juveniles stealing guns from vehicles, but adults as well. And while the number of people in the county jail has decreased, the seriousness of the charge and length of stay is longer. [Officials: Growing crime caseloads include more teens]
Yes, pollution, crashes, blackouts, anthrax, Legionella, shigella, bovine TB,
suicides, flooding, wildfires, hail, ecocide, crime, corruption, disease, drought, destruction, distrust and dependence:
these are the Noem years.
Little wonder the red moocher state elected a governor who not only slept her way to the top
she drives the violence.
But, a red moocher state like South Dakota is powered by sin: video lootery, a loan shark industry that preys on the least fortunate and a too-big-to-jail banking racket fill in the gaps created by lobbyists who enjoy the protection of single-party tyranny.