By Elmer
Whittaker
At present
police misconduct, abuse of power, police brutality, police murders but also
false and fabricated charges and convictions as well as prosecutorial and
judicial misconduct, malicious prosecutions and legal extortion by way of plea
deals are at its all-time high and rising.
The simple
truth of life and judicial as well as police misconduct is that as long there
are no or only little consequences the abuse and the corruption will continue
uninhabited. This is not a racial issue any longer, although the Black and
Hispanic minorities may still bear the brunt of it, police and judicial system
really kill and abuse the citizenry indiscriminately.
Go to YouTube
and you can find hundreds of thousands of videos of police misconduct and
brutality alone, including ice cold murder. In spite of all this video evidence
hardly ever a law enforcement officer is charged, indicted or god forbid
actually sentenced.
In many cases
police departments and district attorney’s offices actually go through great
and obvious lengths of cover-ups to hold their law enforcement officials free
of harm and justice.
Hardly ever
will you find an unjustified police shooting. Hardly ever will you find a case
of police brutality in which the perpetrating law enforcement official is
properly prosecuted and sentenced. No matter what they do, it always seems to
turn out justifiable. Only every once in a great while will you find real
prosecution of police crimes and often the consequences of such prosecution
won’t go beyond the perpetrators losing their job.
Then when the
public outrage gets too loud you can hear the apologetics repeating their usual
mantras. “Most cops are good and law abiding and you can find a few bad apples
everywhere.” No greater lie than this.
Look at the
videos. No, I mean watch them. Really. You see one, two or several police
officers perpetrating the abuse at first while others are just “bystanders”, or
you can see back-up to arrive running to the help of the abusing officers while
their first action is to kick the helpless victim in their face.
And none of
these law enforcement officers, even if they did not perpetrate the abuse
themselves, will come forward and charge the criminal police officers and bring
justice to their victims, because they all adhere to the “thin blue line” and
“code blue”, shrouding themselves into silence and secrecy.
Although
there already exists a number of studies and research which document that the
use of Body Cams worn by police officers reduce misconduct of participating law
enforcement personal by up to 80%, Body Cams alone without proper legislation
and prosecution of violators will not be sufficient to end police misconduct as
we can clearly see from all the videos on YouTube which already exist.
Not since the
NAZI’s SS-troopers have I seen more blatant lies of innocence. If you are a
sworn law enforcement officer and do not interfere and protect the citizens
from the crimes perpetrated by their corrupt colleagues and neither speak up
truthfully and “Whistleblower” and charge as well as testify against the
criminal cops, you are as guilty as any NAZI SS-trooper for the crimes
committed by the SS. And that’s a fact. Silence is consent!
People inherently
are prone to the abuse of power especially if they are protected by the system
and there are little to no consequences to their actions.
And after all
that said, I have not really touched upon the judicial and prosecutorial
corruption and misconduct. So I just will concentrate and say a few words to
the District Attorney’s and prosecutors who continuously fail to prosecute
criminal law enforcement officers and in fact cover-up for their crimes.
Malicious prosecution and fabricated cases against citizens often for the sole
purpose of extorting money out of the citizenry is yet a completely different
subject of judicial corruption.
If “We The
People” are to bring about change and an end to the increasing police
misconduct and brutality we don’t get around of holding the criminals
accountable no matter of what their position ion our corrupt legal system is.
And not just
do we need to hold them accountable, but due to their entrusted and often sworn
in position, we must punish them much harder than we would punish a citizen who
would commit the same crime. Losing one’s job in severe cases, on a corrupt
police force, is not the punishment I am referring to and is with certainty no
deterrent for their abuse of power.
Independent (from the judicial and law enforcement system) Review Boards and Commissions with judicial and prosecutorial powers must be established and investigate any and all cases of alleged police and judicial misconduct. Merciless prosecution of any judicial and police officials must commence where warranted and detailed reports of investigations must be published of cases where prosecution is not warranted.
Higher ethical and moral standards for elected and sworn in officials in entrusted positions must be applied for their allegations and sentencing of crimes than for ordinary civilian offenders and violators.
New laws must be legislated to complement the new and stricter methods to curb and end police and judicial corruption.
Sufficient help, rehabilitation and monetary compensation for the victims of police and judicial corruption must become the norm to finally implement justice for all.
Finally,
history has shown over thousands of years that there will eventually be some
form of accountability for those guilty of oppression, abuse and violating
human rights. Nowadays advanced society simply must do better than to wait for
history to take its course.
