There are a couple of stories going on here but none of them
are that we need to be sympathetic to crooked filthy cops when they get busted
especially for messing with evidence and reports that send people to prison.
To be clear – the threats of violence and depredation that
the reporter is allowing the family so much column inches about is the same for
everyone getting incarcerated. Indeed
my view is that the criminal justice and carceral system is so rotten to the
core that it is not even fit for its own designers and that would hold true for
filthy corrupt cops. We should not seek
revenge for this dirty copper but at the same time any suffering he is subject
to is no more than anyone else and these papers are not reaching out to the
families of all the victims of this dirty cops tainted evidence. It probably has not even crossed the reporter’s
mind – since we should be concerned only for cops that might end up subject to
the violence, depredation and torture of NJ corrections facilities.
The bigger story here – that this media source needs to
shift its focus ro – in this case and the other case of the Bloomfield cop –
who went to prison based upon tainted evidence - Indeed this needs to be a statewide media
effort – consolidate a list of all the dirty falsifying, perjuring, evidence
planting, Miranda violating, charges wobbling, evidence suppressing police,
prosecutors and courts that allow the tainted testimony and evidence to come
in.
This is not going on in a vacuum. Decarcerate the Garden State has attempted to
focus attention both of the media and the elected officials on the 12:1
statistic that has come out of the Sentencing Project. In NJ a Black resident is 12 times as likely
to end up incarcerated as a white resident.
This statistic makes NJ number one in this regard – it has the worse
disparity of this statistic in the whole country. The average state has a 5:1 to 6:1 ratio
which itself is horrific.
Our organization has called for an across the board audit of
police departments, prosecutors offices and courts to determine how racially
motivated decision making is being employed to create this horrific
disparity. We are also demanding
immediate sentencing commutation relief for those found to have caught a
sentence or a longer sentence based upon racially motivated policing,
prosecutions, judgments and sentencing.
While we are calling upon elected officials and the
government to take up these demands – we realize that it is unlikely to occur
until we develop a greater groundswell to make these demands – we have to
create a statewide environment where the elected officials can not check their
twitter, Facebook or e-mail accounts without being inundated with these demands
and when they venture out into the community – they need to be interrupted with
concerned residents raising these demands and issues.
In the meantime, we are calling upon NJ residents to begin to gather the evidence of racially motivated polcing and prosecution. Our call is for the cities, counties and courts that are guilty of employing racial decision making to be the ones to take the legal action calling for the release (time served) or sentence reductions of those who caught sentences / longer sentences.
In the meantime, we are calling upon NJ residents to begin to gather the evidence of racially motivated polcing and prosecution. Our call is for the cities, counties and courts that are guilty of employing racial decision making to be the ones to take the legal action calling for the release (time served) or sentence reductions of those who caught sentences / longer sentences.
We also have to start a database as to where we can prove
there are cops and other officials that have tainted their legal hand as
witnesses, experts, presenters of evidence.
This is another area we need to press for Decarceration – and review of legal proceedings and possible retrials if the state believes it has evidence minus the tainted evidence these dirty cops have proffered.
This is another area we need to press for Decarceration – and review of legal proceedings and possible retrials if the state believes it has evidence minus the tainted evidence these dirty cops have proffered.
For those interested in helping in any of these regards –
call / text 908-881-5275 or write Decarc@DecarcerateNJ.org
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