In this case, they caught the person responsible:
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In case you didnât see, Rob posted about that same killer/case on the main site:
Another tragedy of shoddy police work when the crime involves violence against WOC and/or sex workers. 
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This thread starts out horrifying and only goes down from there.
Should we take odds on how many of the four out of eleven kids arrested were Black?
Spoiler alert: it was all of them.
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For fuck sake. That story is seemingly endless horror.
Imprisoning children because a 10 year old thought they were in the group that saw a 6 year old hit another kid?! That is so beyond fucked up
This part, though:
In August 2000 â less than three months after the story was published â Rutherford County elected Davenport to the newly created job of juvenile court judge. Her opponent, a major in the sheriffâs department, was later charged with sex crimes against minors and, in a plea deal, got probation. Davenport has not had another opponent since.
20 years of imprisoning children and bragging about it, and not once has someone run against Donna Davenport for the job?
and the people who decide whether to charge children with a crime in that county donât have to have any legal training.
From issuing warrants to setting bail to conducting probable cause hearings, Rutherford Countyâs judicial commissioners can take on tasks that traditionally fall to judges or prosecutors â without needing the legal training of either.
Rutherford County opens the job to anyone with a Tennessee driverâs license and a high school diploma, supplemented by some college-level course work or vocational training and some office work.
The 2 high school grads with no legal training that approved arresting the children in this story have both since been re-appointed to their job
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The fact that TPTB in this case are bringing in money for the county is why theyâre still there (along with who sheâs been targeting all those years). Too bad no one has caught them taking bribes, because that brought down judges who profited from locking up children in other states. Even then, there has to be some motivation to take disciplinary action or prosecute, and the expansion of the for-profit detention operation doesnât make that seem likely.
Racism always makes a terrible situation for children that much worse, and Rutherford Countyâs minority population isnât large enough to counter that in a very red state. Itâs a national disgrace, and a problem taking far too long to resolve:
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Why did I click on your links? I was drinking too much as it was. There is something about the combination of the smallness of the modern world which lets us see how the same racist bullshit chokes the whole country and the bigness of the modern world which makes it seem unchangeable that leads me to perpetually oscillate between hope and despair gripping a glass of whiskey to brace for each curve
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I said the same thing when I read the ProPublic piece before dinner. Adding a drink didnât make it go down any easier. 
I see now where I made my mistakeâŚtime to switch gears. 
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I read the proPublica article before I left work. Its safer that way because some people could read that or the end of your link âŚ
Zakiya Reddy-Cherif, a Black mother in Philadelphia whose teenage son has been incarcerated throughout the pandemic, has not been allowed to visit him the whole time, she said.
If he does get out, she just wants to hug him and smell his skin, she said, adding, âI know thatâs crazy, but Iâm a mom.â
âBut whenever I go to the courthouse, everybody there looks like me and everybodyâs son looks like my son,â she said. âSo no, I canât say that I am hopeful.â
and not open the liquor cabinet, but me âŚ
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This seems like the kind of thing that should kick in the FBI and DOJ to issue a consent decree and shut their shit down until they prove that theyâve cleaned it up. But it may be such a small operation that it isnât on their radar. That process is geared towards big city departments like Chicago or LAPD, not Rutherpodunk, TN. Which is a shame, because it us just as important.
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Another case of a cop claiming fear led them to shoot someone in the back - repeatedly:
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JFCâŚ
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Dayton Fraternal Order of Police President Jerome A. Dix said in a statement Friday night that the officers asked for compliance and offered to âassistâ Owensby when they were told he is paraplegic. He said the motorist âcontinued to be verbally noncompliant,â thus escalating the officersâ response.
âThe officers followed the law, their training, and department policies and procedures,â he said. âSometimes the arrest of noncompliant individuals is not pretty, but is a necessary part of law enforcement to maintain public safety, which is one of the fundamental ideologies of our society.â
Dangerous paraplegics chasing people down in the streetsâŚ
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And all this for the heinous crime of window tint.
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But we know itâs not about the tint of the windowsâŚ
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Yeah, this part
He said the motorist âcontinued to be verbally noncompliant,â thus escalating the officersâ response.
Smacks of, âsee what he made them do?!?â
And pray tell, dear union, if maintaining public safety is such a goal, why the fvck arenât all the officers, everywhere, vaccinated yet?
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âDespite officersâ lawful orders, he illegally remaind paraplegic and suffered the just consequence of his defiance.â About right? Yup, thought so.
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