Gladwyn d’Souza#WhitePriveledge = No #RuleOfLaw: elected #prosecutors who promised #progressive law #enforcement, focusing as much on #policeaccountability as (#dogwistles like) #toughoncrime. Kim Gardner, elected in 2016 following the fatal police shooting of #MichaelBrown in the suburb of #Fergusonpledging to reduce #massincarceration and promote #rehabilitation over #punishment.
A Detective Sabotaged His Own Cases Because He Didn’t Like the Prosecutor. The Police Department Did Nothing to Stop Him.
Across the country, police have undermined and resisted reform. To protest a prosecutor, one detective was willing to let murder suspects walk free, even if he’d arrested them and believed that they should be behind bars.