White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says

Re:White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police a... by dogma1138 on Thursday August 27, 2020 @05:32PM (#24298934)

Prosecutors rely heavily on police testimony during trials and their conviction ratio is highly important for their careers especially for elected ones, so it can easily create a conflict of interest.

They go after the police and somehow police officers stop attending trials or claim they don’t remember during their testimony.

There needs to be either a completely separated body from the state/district attorneys or it needs to be federal.

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Re:White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police a... by BurningFrog on Thursday August 27, 2020 @07:31PM (#24299863)

I was thinking a specialized police prosecution unit, on the state level. The career prosecutors there would make their careers by convicting cops.

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Re:White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police a... by dogma1138 on Thursday August 27, 2020 @07:43PM (#24299948)

That’s what internal affairs does, it still isn’t enough usually because it pretty much means you are stuck there once you join since your other career prospects disappear.

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Re:White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police a... by DlSGUSTING on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:16AM (#24301306)

I think there's more risk of corruption or favouritism with IA than if it was a federal body completely disconnected from the department

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Re:White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police a... by dogma1138 on Friday August 28, 2020 @01:56AM (#24301765)

Yep, in general this is what the DoJ supposed to also be doing, it just doesn’t have a mandate that can be applied to all cases.

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