Police Brutality Stats
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"The Talk." How Black Parents Tell Their Sons To Be Safe
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-talk-how-black-parents-tell-their.html
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"The Talk." How Black Parents Tell Their Sons To Be Safe
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-talk-how-black-parents-tell-their.html
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"D.A.s Help Keep Bad Cops From Being Held Accountable"
Alan: A few years ago, cops fired as many bullets in a single NYC gunfight as the total number of bullets fired by all German police over the course of the earth's entire circuit around the sun.
Although American violence is "over the top" -- whether perped by criminals or "authorities" -- my own experience with the criminal "justice" system persuades me that "the worst of it" is the determination of American police to lock up black people, regardless the facts and with minimal regard for due process.
20% of the 300 former convicts exonerated from death row convictions by DNA evidence were pressured to give false confessions.
Take this in: One out of five innocent people confess to capital crimes they did not commit.
Don't think so?
Here's how it's done.
"Frontline: A Rape-Murder Case Involving A Daisty Chain Of 4 False Confessions"
In addition to the mendacity and manipulation lavished on wrongful conviction is the ease with which district attorneys and public defenders persuade people-of-color to "cop pleas" -- even if they did not commit the crime. They are told in no uncertain terms -- and I know this from years working as a Spanish language court interpreter in Orange County, North Carolina -- that "asking for a jury trial" will probably result in conviction because, on one hand, they lack resources to mount a good defense and also because most juries will be prejudiced against them, partly because they don't have the wherewithal to pay for good lawyers.
My best friend, Steve Gibson R.N. - requiescat in pace - would have been convicted of armed robbery were it not for his family's considerable wealth and consequent ability to re-enact, in court, his purported crime, right down to prevailing "light conditions" and how they affected the victim's ability to identify the perpetrator through a screen door. If convicted, Steve would have languished in prison, with no opportunity to dedicate his life to nursing.
Wrongful Conviction
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/05/wrongful-conviction.html
After My Mugging In The Early '70s, The Police Pressured Me To Pin The Rap On Someone I Couldn't Identify
Miscarriage Of Justice, Texas Style
How Criminal Records Make It Impossible To Get Your Life Back
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'The Talk:' How Parents Of All Backgrounds
Tell Kids About The Police
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9 min 15 sec
In light of events in Ferguson, Mo., African-American parents have been discussing the importance of having "The Talk" about how their children should interact with police. But do other ethnic groups have similar conversations?
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