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lawhawk5/23/2016 8:17:15 am PDT

re: #210 Sir John Barron

The odds never looked good, as outrageous as the circumstances were. Difficult to pinpoint who did what and what happened. At the least you’d think they’d be liable for some form of negligence.

That’s very true. But the prosecutors led with what they thought were the strongest cases. With these failing to get convictions, the rest of the cases look just as bleak.

And it’s yet another reason why minorities see the justice system as fixed - the outcomes are predetermined with law enforcement getting benefit of doubt even before the grand jury sees any evidence. Prosecutors who work closely with law enforcement are going to give law enforcement the benefit of doubt, and judges often are biased in favor of law enforcement as well. Throw in juries that are selected often with favorable views towards law enforcement, and it’s a stacked deck. Blue lives matter.

But the lives of those being policed don’t matter nearly so much, and the tactics and training leaves much to be desired. Cop killings are down, but the media treats every one of those as a sign that the apocalypse is happening. Yet there’s no way to adequately track how many people are killed by cops every day. Because it really does happen pretty much daily.

Some of those are justified - but there’s a significant number that aren’t (where the individual is unarmed, let alone ones where the individual is mentally ill).