percent of my time dedicated to my case and that enabled those to hire a private investigator we had essentially a growing more chest of evidence that i hadn't committed the crime or at least that all the evidence that was presented was it was false evidence i had received a complaint from i flew up to. the state prison where there was i spoke to him once somebody is accused of murder and you're arrested for murder it's tape recorded everything is tape recorder i couldn't find his tape 'd it had been. taken out of evidence by detective monsoon and it was never put back into evidence detective monsoor wood said the footprints outside the house matched the footprints on the inside lieutenant gavin found the footprints were actually looked at by a scientist or any qualified expert so we took matters into his own so i contacted our people scientific investigative division so he takes hunt this big magnifying glass looks at it looks at the other one a goes these 2 don't match see this is

a great embarrassment for any large organization that you've convicted somebody for murder and then 51020 years later it's true it turns out that the person is actually anderson. and this is what my lieutenant said that is not in that prison do you understand me sergeant kaplan they will do everything they can to stop you her french you from going forward with the information you have upon revealing the comprehensive work at the private investigator yeah they p.d. internal affairs department claimed his complaints were unfounded and that no misconduct had occurred you can't have an eternal investigation we all investigate our sales. this guy good job to give the stories or anything like that just to give the system that has no checks and balances you. know i believe that internal affairs should be separate from the police department there is no way that a police department can investigate themselves currently there are no independent.

organizations whose job it is to investigate police misconduct and there's no oversight of prosecutors either. prosecutorial misconduct does a major factor of wrongful convictions just a single thread that runs through almost all of the wrongful conviction cases. as a master's in criminal justice specializing in wrongful convictions is also a survivor of prosecutorial misconduct i spent 16 years in prison. 17. emerged at $32.00 jeff eventually won a lawsuit against putnam county new york conviction which enabled him to start his own foundation the founder and executive director of the foundation for justice there's no deterrent there's no oversight is no punishment for prosecutors so they can break the law they don't face criminal penalties even when they engage in withholding evidence of innocence threatening witnesses coercing witnesses no

matter how serious the misconduct is if the prosecutor commits after an arrest has been made they have what's called prosecutorial immunity they're above the law the prosecutors to really uphold what's become just words which is you know they're there to do justice they're there to do the right thing it becomes more like an expression the prosecutor's offices actually keep statistics on conviction rates well you should be credited that you looked at a case where the police thought they had a good case but a good prosecutor looked and said you know what there's some mistakes made here we should drop the charges in this case we should incentivize that but instead we actually incentivize the opposite of getting convictions and getting conviction rates all of a sudden justice gets lost in that process and whether this guy committed the crime or not gets lost in the process because it's all about winning my case. i mean in the real world you know. we held accountable for your wrongdoings so therefore if

you are a person of authority. do you have to be held at a higher standard than just a lamely i think we actually to step back and kind of a rethink the whole system in the way we're approaching it because it's become this game and people's lives are lost as a result of it. if you ever do find yourself fully convicted odds are you never get now the 1st thing you need to do preservation letters to the police department and the courts requesting that you want all your evidence say otherwise they may destroy it within 30 days try to find an innocence project that will take you case prepare for this process to take years . for. the innocence project estimates conservatively there could easily be 40000 to over 100000 americans currently wrongfully convicted

the majority of which are people of color. this is private investigator on this case yet a very vigorous private investigator who made a complaint to the land on the desk of an internal affairs investigator who. looked at bruce's claims in a very serious minded fashion. it's the people like the text of the others out there that have made our job very difficult to do day after day because we lose the confidence of the public and with the confidence of the courts and we have to have police chief structures of public service that are willing to do the right thing and terminate employees who are doing. the wrong thing if you want to say you're the good guy but you're ostracized

by everybody that you believe then it's a very difficult situation because i have to continue to work for the same department the. i don't look at myself as a hero i look at myself as a sort of as a survivor because the system attacked me system one after me and the system did everything they could to keep her in jail and everything to keep me quiet it's been a lot of therapy my wife and i met in 3rd grade we were elementary junior high high school sweethearts who lived on the same street and it's a been it's been a very difficult difficult road she is 3rd generation l.a.p.d. and so the survival is day by day and always looking over your shoulder whether you're doing the right thing or not you're constantly looking over your shoulder and every time i get called into the captain's office i wonder what did i do now and i've never had that feeling before i just kept on telling myself they are not

going to defeat me they're not going to defeat me it's just when you come across something like this what are you going to do and that's the difficult thing if i had not given the information that i did to the l.a. times bruce lester would still be in prison. a bloody footprint that was attributed to bruce at his trial had recently been reanalyzed and shown to not been made from bruce issue so they got his interest in the case and we started talking to the private investigator and began the 7 month investigation and at the conclusion of that they filed an article called the case of doubt eventually one of them in the ward one of the times and. i want up sitting between 2005 when the 1st article came out and 2009 in prison for solid years. a widely recognized innocent man we knew back in 20032004 that we had. probably a person that was in prison for

a crime he did not commit and it took 5 years for the courts to work through the entire system there were a lot of delays because of the conduct of my own police department and the conduct of the california attorney general. reggie kohl spent 16 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit 10 of those years were spent in solitary confinement and he had to kill another man to get a trial it's a miracle reggie got out of all. thames is a miracle story as well in late 2012 after 26 years he made parole. i signed some papers for the prof's or he said ok see you later. then asked me how i was getting home didn't ask me if i had a home when i realize these people honestly don't give.

to survive good you know dislodge harder than it sounds to me and develop pools of magic stress disorder phobia. and require immediate treatment you want to defund new clothes you're going to need money for transportation to and from your brule was a meeting if you miss a beating you could be my new sofa you be going to need a job but there's a lot of discrimination out there for employment and you speak you know which you're going to need. i wouldn't have a home if it wasn't for the rescue a life foundation to set up a house a transitional housing. god and that foundation. is what's got me by. a series and i'm sitting here and not back inside the rescue a life foundation was founded by duane make al a. challenging it can be to enter society. 25 years from south america

after school we would have to go to my mother's dress and hang out all day work around the business at that time we had several organisations that would just patrol the area so it was pretty say we had black panthers rock rangers organization united sleighs we had the nation of islam it was pretty cool you know you don't have to worry about people coming in holding you up and everything you have to worry about that type stuff but it was after the cointelpro when they get pushed on the ground that everything seem like you know we're crazy all the bugs came out and you know you were you were fair game in the store operators as well as we started having a lot of burglaries my mother she just lived before. she was beat up and rob one day while i was there and grabbed it threw into the ground. got the money

did he figured it was enough money you know i was lucky you know i was funny but. years old at the time you know he had his gun on and she was hounding me not to move it just you know with his students kicking her and demanded more money and he got all the money we hate you know. mother wasn't robbed once she was robbed over and over again. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics. i'm show business i'll see you then. joe biden they indeed be inaugurated in january of next year however will you have a legitimate mandate well the next campaign starts when the next president takes office and the neoliberal. class kind of financial survival job today was all about

money laundering 1st to visit this cash into 3 different. oh good this is a good start well we have our 3 banks all set up here maybe something in your something in america something overseas in the cayman islands or do we do all these banks are complicit in their tough talk or say we just have to give mccall and say ok i'm ready to do some serious money laundering ok let's see how we did well we've got a nice luxury watch for max and for stacy oh beautiful jewelry and how about. again for a match you know what money laundering is highly illegal. watch keyser of course. imagine picking up a future textbook on the early years of the 21st century what are the chapters called gun violence school shootings homelessness 1st it was my job it was my field was my savings i have nothing i have nothing and it's not like i don't

trust aloof or resources i look for jobs i look for everything i can to make this house. in la in the doing is. the road to the american dream paved with did refuse it's this very idealized image of. americans look pasta the deaths that happen every single day this is a history of the usa and america. i had a good friend he would always come in about me being so tight and he smokes we submit just take this you need to the right medication and lead to the page you know lead to cocaine in the p.c. . we shot in the lead to my crime that happened in

prison and i'm going to prison for a 2nd degree murder to do is route me they were pows have been the middleman going to get the end of the you know robbing me because it happened to us in business the family business so much this guy he wasn't just someone that was robbing me all the time he was the image of somebody he had been victimized in my family and all these other times you got away with just how you want to go to get away so it was kind of like a v. day retaliation thing for you where you are you going to pay for that so what i found is what you can't forgive and you end up becoming. what you can't forgive you end up becoming. so i had to learn how to forgive and then to go and i had to learn how to forgive him and let it go because he was also after i got to see his record this guy had

a rap sheet you know from here from one side rolled to the other you know and i could see you know he needed to same help did i need we are generally to imagine that there is such thing as for example a murderer and then they were in the murder in the public imagination and in most of our minds whether we thought about it or not initially is someone who likes to murder and who would murder given the opportunity i think that's what they think of a case and right that's what murders do they go around murdering mate and that's why you don't let them out of prison out of prison are going to murder again. the reality is that murder is almost always. to do harm.

incredibly. some of the. situations and conditions some of which couldn't even really begin. suddenly. doesn't have such a natural place anymore. or. 20 years. there's no human element. to. the criminal justice system. there is no human element they're not there to help you they're not there to help society they can say they want to set up for all

they want that's not what it's there for. not in california and not in a lot of places it's a system set up to punish people and they take a bad situation and they usually make it much worse. you know what the official success rate of state prison is nearly 80 percent of all inmates. within 5 years that's success rate of 20 percent imagine if we have those requirements of airplanes wow you know 10 airplanes falling out of the sky it's a little bit crazy making and that is department of justice the federal government research dr michael attended harvard university has a ph d. in just the studies and as a professor of criminal justice at california state university dr coyle says the prison not only increases criminal behavior as a deleterious effect on society as a whole what happens to a family when the wage earner is removed from society and thrown into prison for 10

years. what happens to those hour of am proud to wear their chances of success in life start to go down what will how does that impact the community loss of resources in our community more demands in the community now to help to help this family maybe the other parent maybe the children it's just so clearly a failure by every measure that you look at it but i think we just need to rethink the whole thing and not just keep trying to put lipstick on this pig because that's what i think it is difficult for people to imagine a world without prisons now we've become so accustomed to the idea of prisons that it's hard for people to imagine well what do you do with people if you don't put them in trip. and when when they've done wrong there are other alternatives just ask he said the degree of civilization in a society could be judged by entering its prisons hebrews 133 remember those who

are in chains as if you were in jesus with them. we don't we put everybody at risk. my husband dan was a police officer and he was killed in a line of duty and my goal at the trial was to get the man who killed my husband convicted of 1st degree murder and speak given the death penalty and that's what i got that's what happened i thought ok here it is i got justice i'm going to be free from this and it didn't happen and it was just a lie it didn't change anything a killer less sheryl's a stainless for brokering the truce between the crips and the bloods in 1902 then in 2004 he experienced an unimaginable tragedy my oldest son was murdered. from winter break college. and i was shot to death at a party. you know my daughter called me was like he. didn't go to room alone she

asked me straight in the projects and stuff and he took a mug on a mission for trail so i jumped him our car and i drove over there to do projects and i jumped off the car and i are sitting. i said man we've played this high for nachos fortune's game old enough i'm like you know it's left us all blind into focus you know and i might win without anybody here to provide direction and guidance for the cues from the young folks and the parents and the loved ones that are left behind like i'm like let's listen to something different there's an opportunity here for us to take the wisdom that we know works what we would do for our own kids or own kids we're in trouble into a very by these kids. we have to demand a once and for all an end to police scene and. business for profit. at least half of the people in there are in there for crimes of addiction or economic desperation or mental health instead of just throwing everybody that we decide if we can help and the money for restoring justice programs. and social

services. there has to be citizen oversight and accountability for all our public servants. we have access to all of the any interest. equal access to opportunity in this country all the. matter of. being logical. to. love for. yourself. good monday morning to you how a poignant man finally free after serving 16 years for a crime he didn't commit i don't think he was real and saw so much oh he's invisible. better. trying to describe it.

was an unbelievable feeling there was just an emotional roller coaster that you know i mean i cried walking out it was just the magnitude of all these years. now here it is and then. a moment later i would be too bewildered to cry and i would just be. that that whole day was really scary for a lot of people but i think that they would be like yeah. but i was terrified there were well wishers well wishers there of officers of the new that. i think they knew the truth certainly knew the character you know my character and then i was in the parking lot. the air smelled different.

and i wish my mom could have been there and wish my dad could have been there was my step mom could have him. but i think you know where they were. going in this. like i don't know this i want tourney's i just feel like running like just getting his 4 away from that place is impossible the best. not the answer that everybody would think. that i would have but. it was a. joyous time for me i mean like i literally was scared to death my cousin was waiting for me my private investor. it was waiting for me and i said. you don't hear what i actually said. and i looked at paul and i said you know. let's get the stuff in the truck out of here. and we could leave fast enough.

the 1st place we stopped there was an eye out for some breakfast and. i was like amazed at just the syrup me. is just was overwhelming it was completely overwhelming. i haven't been in a vehicle without being chained at my feet and with a waist chain and then handcuffs hooked to the waist chain and in a paper jumpsuit for 26 years. the word is just what i mean. to try to try to figure it out too i have to. i'm still trying to figure out word out by. how do you adjust color through the

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