From Kleptocracy To Democracy: How Citizens Can Take Back Local Government

From Kleptocracy to Democracy: How Citizens Can Take Back Local Government provides students with a critical examination of the large-scale political corruption that looted Bell, California between 1993 and 2010. For 17 years, some city officials paid themselves more than a million dollars a year, using the police department as a "for profit" vehicle for collecting fines, and issuing over $100 million in bonds. They turned the city into their own private cash machine

• | Author: Fred Smoller
• | Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
• | Publication Date: Aug 08, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 276 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Political Science
• | ISBN-10: 1516571495
• | ISBN-13: 9781516571499