Not exactly news.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/forme...olice-are/
And, the root of the problem.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/forme...olice-are/
Quote:A former St. Louis Police officer revealed over the weekend that he discovered that many officers were “deeply racist” after joining the force.
In a column for The Washington Post, NAACP Ethic Project head Redditt Hudson explained that he joined the St. Louis Police Department in 1994 because he wanted to help his community, but he soon learned “just how racist and violent the police are.”
And, the root of the problem.
Quote:According to Hudson, officers know that they will only face friendly investigations at worst if they are accused of misconduct.
“My colleagues would laughingly refer to this as a free vacation. It isn’t a punishment. And excessive force is almost always deemed acceptable in our courts and among our grand juries,” he observed. “Prosecutors are tight with law enforcement, and share the same values and ideas.”
Hudson argued that the solution was to appoint a special prosecutor in cases of excessive force, and to back that up with robust independent oversight.
