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| Penny Brummer was wrongfully convicted of murder in Wisconsin because she is a lesbian. Brummer is also a victim of preposterous false confession in 1994. See Penny Brummer, Brummer-Mal Contends, Lueders-Isthmus, Ricks-The Advocate, and the Huffington Post, Wisconsin State Journal. |
Police cook police reports, and omit exculpatory information.
Police lie in court declarations.
Police lie in interrogations.
Police lie to protect other cops' dishonest and crooked conduct, the infamous blue omertà known as the blue shield or the blue wall of silence.
Police lying is so institutionally pervasive that it's astounding anyone, much less courts and prosecutors, believe anything cops say and write.
Throw in malice, racism and other base motivations that those who become police commonly harbor and it's clear your local municipal police force resembles nothing so much as a pathological occupying gang.
But the cult of the police remains strong.
Politicians and media forever triumph the noble intentions and alleged virtues of "officers." The Democratic Party is 100-percent behind the police as exemplified by events in Kenosha County concerning the racist cop Rusten Sheskey; and the racist killer, Kyle Rittenhouse, for example.
Police unions supportive of any crooked and dishonest action taken by police have turned into rightwing local political forces.
In Madison, Wisconsin, the local police union rates the City Council members, based upon how Council members aid police in their dishonest and hostile conduct.
But with the growth of a new generation of human rights attorneys and activists like Black Lives Matter, along with the scientific exposure of the junk pseudoscience police often use to prop up their lies, there are success stories that hold police to conduct themselves as non-criminals.
As false confessions and wrongful convictions are revealed across the nation, some honest prosecutors fight back against crooked prosecutors and police.
While actual prosecutions against crooked prosecutors and police remain rare, at least some innocent people are being exonerated.
The New York Times reports this morning on the "a wide-ranging inquiry by the Bronx district attorney into whether the detectives’ tactics had tainted guilty verdicts in 31 homicide cases that relied on confessions."
Police interrogations are not about searching for the truth.
Police interrogations are about getting the police victim to utter words that can be falsely presented as a confession, as in the Wisconsin case of Brendan Dassey, grotesquely targeted by Mark Wiegert, (current Sheriff of the Calumet County (Wisconsin) Sheriff's Office), Tom Fassbender (Wisconsin DoJ, Division of Criminal Investigation
investigator (ret)), sex offender and disgraced ex-prosecutor Ken Kratz and dozens of other police collaborators. Or, to take another Wisconsin case, the wrongfully convicted Penny Brummer, who was arrested and convicted because she is a lesbian, a problem for many bigoted Wisconsin hicks. Police and prosecutors portrayed a nod to a vague question during an interrogation as a confession to a murder.
In the Times piece, Jan Ransom writes:
The [police misconduct] inquiry highlights how a new generation of prosecutors in New York and elsewhere is delving deeply into whether deceptive police interrogation tactics might have warped the criminal justice system through false confessions and wrongful convictions.
The examination comes after the emergence of hundreds of cases across the country in which people were sent to prison only to be exonerated later through the use of DNA or the discovery of new evidence.
In case after case, even after innocence and police misconduct are proven to a moral certainty, prosecutors often oppose freedom for the wrongfully convicted.
Standing in the way of freedom of the wrongfully convicted is sick, to most people.
But this demented pursuit is an enterprise taken up by prosecutors, police and cowardly politicians such as Wisconsin Gov Tony Evers (D).
What's wrong with these people?
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