So, if I understand this correctly, this woman is being sued by the state if California for making a list of bad cops using knowledge that she may have obtained prior to her working for the DA's office? Isn't that fucking special. What are they going to do about the bad cops?
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Close, but she's not being sued, she's actually being criminally prosecuted on six felony charges
Isn't that fucking special.
In-fucking-deed it is
What are they going to do about the bad cops?
They all already got a variety of punishments (generally not harsh enough imo, but their conduct runs all the way from rigging an intramural athletic competition to driving drunk with a loaded firearm, so it's a bit of a complicated picture and worth reading the full article for those details). She was looking them up after the fact so the prosecutor's office she works for now (Los Angeles county) didn't call on them to testify in court (or, if they had to call them for whatever reason, so her office knew to let defense attorneys know about this as theoretically required under the Brady opinion (but exactly what things are Brady material and what can be ignored is something attorneys will be fighting over until the end of time and something I believe LA county and the CA attorney general have argued over in recent history)).
In a statement, Steve Johnson, the president of the Los Angeles County Professional Peace Officers Association, vehemently disagreed with release of personnel information which he described as “stolen,” even though they were court records, and said that it would endanger deputies, families and peace officers who serve the community.
We'll be murdered if the public finds out about our misbehavior!
On one exhibit, state prosecutors left public the department identification numbers corresponding to Deputy Does 7, 8 and 9. On another, they left public a connected civil case number. In at least four cases, handwritten margin notes and signatures made it possible to match redacted exhibits to the public versions of the same documents already in L.A. Superior Court records.
It almost feels like someone on the inside strategically left hints for this to be uncovered, but it's probably just incompetence.
Sure seems like cops are able to get their jobs back in a lot of instances. That wouldn't work with my employer. Kinda feels out of balance, like they aren't truly accountable, dontcha think?