Intersections of Cops, LEOs, Prosecutors, Judges, Juries, Criminal Law, Civil Law, the Prison Industry, Politicians, and even the news media
On April 27, The Washington Post published an extensive story on the same issues I wrote about earlier in the day: how American cop culture fights citizen oversight and accountability. I call it the Criminal-Industrial Complex. Mine was just a blog post. The Washington Post story is an in-depth investigative report, the stuff of good …
When Derek Chauvin murdered Mr. George Floyd on Memorial Day, 2020, the first public statement made by the Minneapolis Police Department was an official lie. Naturally, that lie made cops out to be 'just doing their duty,' and George Floyd as an 'unfortunate' victim of a coincidental "medical incident" that, they implied, he brought on …
Continue reading How cops lie: Derek Chauvin and the Minneapolis Police Department.
It took 400 years to brew up the perfect storm needed to convict just one Derek Chauvin. There are thousands more out there. From now on, it will be much harder to convict criminal cops. And it will be even harder to fire pigs that skate the law. Cop culture and allies of cops will …
Continue reading This is just the beginning. Now it gets even tougher.
It just takes one monster off the job and off the street. Reprinted from Politico, April 24, 2021. OPINION | RACE IN AMERICA Have We Really Come That Far Since Rodney King? Three decades ago, it felt like America was finally waking up to police abuse. And yet here we are. People celebrate at George Floyd …
Continue reading Chauvin’s conviction doesn’t solve anything.
Look into this cop's eyes, and tell me he has a soul. One criminal cop taken down is no solution to the problem. But it's a start. And a bit of retribution. And I'll take both of those.
Thank a cop union. While we're on the subject of Chicago cops, take a look at this next story: a Cook County sheriff's officer resigned under pressure for sexually harassing a colleague in 2013!!! It took eight years to fire this pig's blue ass, and all that time he was collecting pay from the taxpayers. …
From the Chicago Sun-Times comes this report on one of the many ways that the American criminal "justice" system is biased in favor of cops and against people of color: prosecutors can unscrupulously, or unconsciously, manipulate evidence in favor of cops. Prosecutor who detailed Toledo shooting video put on leave because he ‘failed to fully …
American law enforcement, making us all safe.
I remember when, as a White kid, at least, I used to think cops were the good guys. You could tell them by their uniforms, like the good cowboys wore white hats. And I remember when I was doing fieldwork in a third-world nation, and you couldn't tell the cops from the dictator's military forces. …
I've struggled with cop culture for well over a decade. But no more. I have officially given up even trying to respect the profession. If I had to pick out the two or three most vile, reprehensible, events in American law enforcement during the past year, it would be damned tough. So many despicable incidents …
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