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Floyd verdict won t remove blocks to police accountability
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Letter to the editor: To be effective, law enforcement must be transparent
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Both your series on the Maine State Police sharing of records and Bill Nemitz’s column on April 22 (“Feeling, more than ever, the weight of a police badge,” Page B1) are illustrative.
The responsibility that comes with the badge is part of the power that one who wears it wields. Transparency is the currency of effective and fair law enforcement and prosecution.
PBS has a documentary titled “Philly DA” airing currently on local channels. Having toiled in the criminal justice arena for 42 years in this jurisdiction and five in Philadelphia in the Federal Defender Office, I believe this program should be required viewing for all law enforcement officers and prosecutors in Maine.
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The guilty verdicts in the George Floyd murder case felt like a watershed moment to many Americans. President Biden called the verdicts a “giant step toward justice.” But pervasive legal roadblocks to police accountability remain firmly in place.
Most police officers who violate citizens’ rights get away with it because the law is heavily stacked in their favor, legal experts say. None of those legal roadblocks was removed by the guilty verdicts against Derek Chauvin.
Qualified immunity. Willful intent. Objective reasonableness. The Law Enforcement Bill of Rights. Union arbitration. Closed misconduct records. An ineffective and closed national database of police misconduct. “Wandering cops” who misbehave and move to a new department where they offend again.