Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Second City [Hero] Cop points out that releasing police shooting videos within 60 days of the incident is bad.


 http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2016/02/rush-rush-rush.html
This is a purely political move, based solely on appeasing certain elements who favor a rush to judgement, no matter what it means in regard to actually putting together a case that will stand up in court and withstand repeated appeals.

Remember what happened in Ferguson [This is a valid example even if there was no Dash Cam video] - every single witness interviewed, sometimes multiple times, every single bit of video, methodically dismantled, analyzed and broken down by frame, a full blown investigation by not one, not two, but three different law enforcement organizations. And the end result? The officer was completely exonerated of every allegation made against him, but he still will never find work in his chosen profession.

That takes too long for the race-baiters and the "rush-to-judgement" crowd. They don't want an actual investigation that will take months and months and might actually prove the police acted within the scope of the law. They want a lynching, plain and simple.
Do not listen to the "rush-to-judgement" haters and baiters over the thin blue line.
 http://mimesislaw.com/fault-lines/calling-bullshit-on-refusal-to-release-the-jamar-clark-video/6746
the notion that police must keep evidence shielded from the public to preserve the “integrity” of the “investigation” is bullshit.
That same “integrity” never seems to bar the public release of all the sordid criminal acts committed by [insert name of non-cop here]. Police departments and prosecutor’s offices all over the country employ press liaisons to let the public know not to worry, they got the bad guy. There is never any issue with dumping buckets of poison into the jury pool when the person in the cross-hairs is a lowly civilian. It is remarkable to watch those same liaisons do a full 180 when someone within the law enforcement family is (or might be) the bad guy. How rapidly they switch into defense mode, ensuring that their guy gets an obscenely “fair” shake that is never extended to the rest of us.

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