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Explosive New eBook Tells Why It's So Tough to Prosecute Cops

By: PRLog
New eBook Details and Debunks the Mt. Everest High Obstacles that Prosecutors face in Prosecuting Bad Cops
LOS ANGELES - Aug. 5, 2016 - PRLog -- Nearly a quarter century after the Rodney King beating and the acquittal of the LAPD officers who beat him, Political Analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson in his new hard hitting eBook, Why It's So Tough to Prosecute Cops (Amazon Kindle), says this question still looms large: What exactly has changed? Are officers who assault and kill unarmed civilians under the color of the law hauled into a court docket and convicted? If not, why?

Hutchinson fast forwards through the next quarter century dissecting the cases from Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri to Freddy Gray in Baltimore as well as many more controversial cases involving police shootings and excessive force accusations to answer that question. Hutchinson notes that in the overwhelming majority of cases involving allegations of police violence, the majority of victims are young African-Americans or Hispanics. The majority of the officers are white.

Hutchinson details the Mt. Everest high obstacles to prosecuting bad cops. They include: powerful police unions that watch hawk-like for any hint of an investigation of officers for abuse, judges and juries that disbelieve witness testimony about officers' misconduct, the still solid pristine image the public holds of cops, the code of silence among police officers, the fear of crime and dependence on the police to protect them from it, the negative typecasting of poor young blacks, and District Attorneys and federal prosecutors that, no matter how diligent they are in holding police accountable for their actions, know full well the colossal hurdles they face if they decide to prosecute an officer for excessive force.

Hutchinson notes that "There is no ironclad standard of what is or isn't an acceptable use of force in police misconduct cases. It often comes down to a judgment call by the officer. In the King beating case in 1992 in which four LAPD officers stood trial, defense attorneys painted King as the aggressor and claimed that the level of force used against him was justified. This pattern has been evident in a number of celebrated cases since then. Police claim that they feared for their lives in confronting civilians and they use deadly force solely in self-defense. If brought to trial, judges and juries routinely buy this line and acquit."

In Why It's So Tough to Prosecute Cops, Hutchinson paints a sometimes terrifying, sometimes, shocking, and always sobering picture of the colossal problems that prosecutors face in prosecuting bad cops and what prosecutors can and should do to try to overcome them.

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