By Elmer
Whittaker
Although racism
is clearly behind much of the police and judicial corruption, I do not believe
that racism is the foundation of injustices against a large number of our
citizenry. Many police abusers are black themselves and without a doubt for
every black victim of police misconduct there is at least a non-black victim to
be found. I do not even believe that minorities are targeted because they are
minorities or of a certain ethnical background.
I truly believe
that minorities, especially blacks, are the main target of police abuse,
brutality and murders because of their vulnerabilities and lacking financial
resources allowing the abusing police and authority figures to abuse their
powers without usually facing any consequences.
Look at other
countries. Police and judicial corruption happens everywhere, just not to a
degree as it happens here in the United States. It happens in countries without
a large black population. Look at Abu Ghraib. None of the abused victims of our
everyday and normal soldiers, were really black.
It’s the
absolute power, that corrupts absolutely. As long as our police forces and
judicial system is not held accountable for their misdeeds and actions and
virtually gets away with murder, the abuse will continue.
Our judicial
system and the criminal “Blue Code of Silence” is what likens police
departments to organized crime syndicates and ultimately gives them the
absolute power without the fear of consequences that makes them all too easy to
abuse their powers.
Too often have
clearly guilty police officers gotten away with police abuse without facing
consequences. Too often have complaints and charges against police officers
been thrown out in court, have led to unexplainable acquittals or were not even
prosecuted by the DA. Not even bodycams and tens of thousands of police abuse
videos taken by the citizenry has curbed the police abuse.
I do remember
how it all started. The first famous video taken by a citizen showing clear
evidence of police abuse against Rodney King, back in 1992, and the following
acquittal of the indicted police officers. Nothing has changed since.
Absolutely nothing, except more and more video evidence of clear police abuse
has been made public since. To little or no avail.
If we are to
curb police corruption and abuse, then we must have a legal venue to hold
accountable, prosecute, trial and sentence abusing police officers. A venue
which fairness and justice We The People can trust.
There is no
other way.
