Enforcers category archive
Immunity Impunity
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The Grand Jury decision not to indict in the Tamir Rice case in Cleveland is, as best as I can tell, a perfect storm of excuses.
“To Protect and Serve” 0
More news from the post-racial front.
The first group of messages, which surfaced in an ongoing investigation that began well before three guards were charged this fall with the beating death of an inmate, vilify blacks and, to a lesser degree, Latinos, Vietnamese and Jews. In one text, an officer wrote to his colleagues, “We could hang a n—-r in Haiti for about 75 bucks tops.”
Follow the link, but wait until you’ve digested your lunch.
Unquestioning Loyalty 0
At Above the Law, Elie Mystal muses on why cops get away with killing black people for being. A snippet (emphasis added):
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The best spin I can put on the pro-police faction in this country is that they kind of can’t BELIEVE that the cops are as racist and as violent as black people know they are.
Read it.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
A member of the Minneapolis city council has blamed peaceful protesters shot by white supremacists for getting themselves shot. Here’s a bit from a detailed story in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
That’s part of the problem with these protests: the longer they go on, the more participation there is from across the country,” Johnson said. “The longer it goes on, the worse it gets.”
When I was a young ‘un, back in the olden days, the defenders of the segregationist status quo liked to blame “outside agitators” for getting themselves shot and buried in dams.
I’m trying to figure out whether blaming “inside agitators” is a step forward, a step backward, or a just a step sideways.
In Search of Evidence 0
The Boston Review, blows the underpinnings from all the CSIs, Bones, and a number of other cop science(-fiction) shows by looking at what happens in real-life crime labs–failing to observe the chain of custody, falsifying results, and generally doing sloppy, if not downright incompetent, work.
Here’s a bit:
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It shouldn’t be controversial to point out that forensic science is not really a science to begin with, not in the sense of disciplines such as biology and physics. Forensic science covers whatever techniques produce physical evidence for use in law.
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Debtor’s Prisons 0
If you wonder why I support the ACLU, look no further.
