"This isn't just having an effect on those individuals," said Dervan, who co-chaired the task force. "It's having an effect on the entire community and the safety of the entire community."
With more and more innocent people pleading guilty to crimes they did not commit effects the families of those people, and their community because now everyone is afraid of being locked up for something they did not do.
research that cites innocent defendants who agree to falsely plead guilty, sometimes on the advice of their own lawyers.
I just do not understand why the defendants lawyer advise them to plead guilty even when knowing they are innocent, its not fair to the defendant, and now the actual criminal is still out committing crimes.
The deals also exacerbate racial inequality, with Black defendants more often subject to prosecutors' stacking of multiple charges in drug and gun cases.
With the prosecutors 'stacking' multiple charges on black defendants that is considered racial profiling as they are targeting these people and putting more offenses on them to put them away for longer.
The prevalence of plea bargaining exploded in the last several decades as a way to save money and time and to promote more certainty in outcomes.
I believe proving the innocence of person that may actually be innocent should be valued more than saving money, and trying to show that these trials will have certain endings to them.
With the amount of travel that Americans engage in domestically, law enforcement has not kept up to speed with ensuring that officers receive the same training. Consequently, police officers may be put in positions to make bad decisions because of a lack of the implementation of federal standards.
Is there any way we can make sure that all police academies are up to date with training so we do not risk officers being put in positions to make a bad decision that possible cost a life?
Police experts critiqued Brailsford’s tactics to de-escalate the situation. As he entered the scene, he had both hands on his M4 rifle and eliminated all other tools or de-escalation tactics. Brailsford was fired, tried for murder, and then rehired.
I think if you were fired from the police department and put on trial for murder, you should not be able to be rehired even if found not guilty due to the reputation you caused. They even said he did not use any other tools to de-escalate the situation with Daniel Shaver.
It is an indisputable fact that Black people are more likely to have force used on them. In fact, Black people relative to white people are significantly less likely to be armed or be attacking at the time they are killed by police.
It just surprises me that we kind of just expect black people to be treated with more force when interacting with police, even if they are not causing harm/trouble.
Nonetheless, despite recent increases that some scholars associate with COVID-19 spillovers related to high unemployment and underemployment, violent crime is still much lower than it was three decades ago.
I wonder what these people that lost jobs due to the pandemic went through mentally while being stuck in their homes for them to become violent. It's almost like something just took over them after being in isolation for so long.
Our article aims to combine perspectives from across the political spectrum on sensible police reform. We focus on short-, medium-, and long-term solutions for reducing officer-involved shootings, racial disparities in use of force
I like how this article tells us that it is going talk about both sides of the story and not just be one sided, and making one perspective look like they are the "bad guys".