John Oliver explains another part of the “justice” system that needs an overhaul:
How did we get here? Amber Ruffin covers lack of diversity among prosecutors:
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Incompetent cops killing a retired cop and wounding their colleague.
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“49 percent of Black respondents say more work needs to be done toward police reform”
wait. was some sort of reform done when i wasn’t looking? 
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Yeah, stories like this show too many cities are just putting more money into training before repeating the same old techniques:
They could emulate successful programs like this instead, and save some taxpayer money:
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in the positive development category there’s this:
[the judge] said Brookside’s credibility was “garbage,” according to three lawyers in attendance. She made clear that she is likely to dismiss cases in which Brookside officers are the only witnesses.
Jaba Tsitsuashvili, a lawyer with the Institute for Justice, a libertarian-leaning group that files lawsuits on constitutional issues across the country, said he had never witnessed the like of what took place Tuesday
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Wow, that’s great! I wish more judges would follow that example. Unfortunately, we see too many cases where the local municipality backs up corrupt cops, so their victims have to sue in order to seek justice:
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yeah. i’m super curious how she came to a place where she could stand separate from the da and the cops, and actually look at the situation as a neutral… well… judge
however that happened, it’d be like: let’s duplicate that process everywhere
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The fact that 8 police officers including the chief have resigned or been forced out, and the lawsuits against the town for the treatment of people by the police probably make it a pretty easy call.
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“There are at least 18 gangs within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department,” according to the investigation, and they are allegedly tied to the deaths of at least 19 people, all of whom were men of color.
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More on oversight…positions will be filled any year now… 
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Plenty of funding for police, but somehow there’s no funding or support from the city for consent-decree mandated police oversight.
Mayor Milquetoast strikes again.
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The headline needs an update, but actions of the police in this case sound terrible. Hope those lawsuits are successful!
Fair was arrested in 2010, and was housed in the King County jail for eight years, seven months, and 14 days without ever being convicted of a crime.
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All those police oversight organizations are probably gonna need a social media department:
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Maybe raising visibility of cases like this could reduce the influence of copaganda:
Missed this series last year, but there’s plenty of material for more seasons:
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