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Our senior investigative correspondent drew griffin went to find out. >> reporter: the number is astounding. the small st. louis suburb of ferguson has a population of just 21,000 people. in march, it had outstanding arrest warrants for 16,000 -- including veronica ortega, technically wanted by the law. for what? >> over a parked car that i had in my driveway. >> reporter: a warrant has been hanging over her head for three years. when she moved into this house three years ago, this new york city transplant finally decided to buy a car. the single mother of three living on fixed income, she cou...

Offenses. the reason not to enforce the law but instead to boost the city's budget. here is our senior investigative correspondent drew griffin. >> reporter: the number astounding the small st. louis suburb of ferguson has a p population of just 21,000. in march it had outstanding arest warrants for 16,000 including veronica ortega, technically wanted by the law for what? >> over a parked car i had in my driveway. >> reporter: a warrant has been hanging over her head for three years. >> i said this is what happened. roichl wh >> reporter: when she moved into the house. the new york city transp...

Mcdonoughs southeast in georgia says his restaurant is dedicated to police, fire, and military and that's why he put up the flags three months ago. but friday a code enforcement officer told him to take them down. i'm just floored and i said what are they for he said i'm in violation of flags flying above my restaurant. >> called him and told him the ordinance he was cited for was two vague and needed to be rewritten. for that reason the owner is asking that citation to be thrown out. here is some more fun animal video for you. this flamingo took a walk on the wild side as workers were herding...

Over three decades. now the city of albany wants him to take it down climbing it violates city code. if he doesn't, he could be looking at jail time. we're joined by eric garrick, the owner. thank you, sir. 30 years this flag has been flying in the same spot? >> yes, eric, i've been employed at that location for 30 plus years and we've always had a flag at that spot. >> tell us what changed. how did the police decide it's time to take the flag down? >> we've got a 311 complaint system in albany and it was phoned in that i had an illegal sign on my property. the code enforcement officer came to...

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