Madison, Wisconsin — Police are free to harass, lie, defame, steal, plant evidence, maim and kill because elected policymakers give cops the green light.
In Louisville, Police Detective Mark Handy lied and planted evidence to send four men to prison.
Local and federal prosecutors and fellow cops knew about Handy, noone said a word — afterall, prosecutors and cops had to consider convenience and career before they stood up for people whom they knew to be innocent.
Edwin Chandler spent 10 years in prison because of Handy’s lies. Chandler pronounced the criminal justice system "broken."
Mark Handy will serve one year in prison for destroying four lives.
Police dishonesty and malice is an old story, an old crime, and without black liberation workers, nothing here would change.
"One of the reasons you've seen the advent of criminal [justice]
reform movements like Black Lives Matters and other kinds of movements that have come
about, is because the system had swung so far to law enforcement," because, in part, the immunity that gives law enforcement impunity to break the law in "outrageous" ways, said attorney Mark Geragos, (Interview with Edward Michael Johnston, a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of the West of England Bristol in interview, Criminal Justice Natters.)
Consider bellwether Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin legislature will enact no legislation to deincarcerate, defund and hold police accountable. The legislature will not even consider legislation that helps the wrongfully convicted.
Democratic Wisconsin State Sen Tim Carpenter (Milwaukee), a monument to Democratic Party inaction, continues his work against black and brown citizens, and Black Lives Matter, while sponsoring lame legislation with the rationale that racist Milwaukee police allied with Carpenter should live within municipal boundaries.
Not a banner year for police reform here almost one year after the police murder of George Floyd, though Carpenter did manage to co-sponsor a bill last year that criminalizes damaging statues.
The innocent languish is Wisconsin prisons, as Attorney General Joshua Kaul (D) and Gov Tony Evers (D) work to keep wrongfully convicted imprisoned, while defending the criminal justice system as just and fair, instead of corrupt and crooked.
This is the reason @GovEvers isn't helpful one little bit to Brendan or Steven. That kind of mentality will bite Evers and all the evil ones who put them in prison one day. You live by the sword you die by the sword , simple.
— Jane (@Jane1970harris) May 15, 2021
