base water, chemical lights and has our, this is going to develop new to men, their international market know that these industries polluting you simply ignore it in one days that mother long and when we loved them other than the means we lost the in the, in the the me a grandmother doing life for murder, was released from prison yesterday after 17 years, when a judge said she did not do it. susan, no one recently filed a lawsuit against the detective who arrested her for hiding evidence. that

detective is the same one who arrested reggie cole with which we, you know, as a society we see the bad guy in the good guy. well, that cops and robbers, but when the car becomes the robber, the game is over. the game is over f corruption. it was her ethic twist of fate. it led to reggie's relief. bruce was more fortunate. his father's death led to an unexpected turn. providence, which is a big thing in any had life insurance, and it was 184000 that my dad left me and i was able to terminate that up to about 236 stock market. and then it was just

a 100 percent of my time dedicated to my case, a lot enabled boost to hire a private investigator. we had essentially a growing war just of evidence that hadn't committed the crime. or at least that all the evidence that was presented was, was false evidence. i had received a complaint from merciless girl. i flew up to the state prison where bruce ledger was i spoke to him when somebody is accused of murder. are you arrested for murder? it's tape recording, everything is tape recording. i couldn't find his tape. ready it had been taken out of evidence by detective mon 2 and it was never put back into evidence active minds with the footprints outside the house matched the footprints on the inside. lieutenant gavin found the footprints weren't actually looked at best scientist or any qualified expert. so we took matters into his own hands, so i contacted our people and we're scientific investigative division. so he takes out this big magnifying glass, looks at it looks at the other one he 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, it turns out that the person is actually innocent. and this is what my lieutenant said. that is not getting out of prison. do you understand me, sergeant cabin, they will do everything they can to stop. you prevent you from going forward with the information you have. upon reviewing the comprehensive work of the private investigator, the p. d. internal affairs department claimed bruce's complaints were unfounded and that no misconduct had occurred. you can have an internal investigation where we all investigate ourselves. that like a general my mom against the authorities or anything like that. i'm just against the system that they have no checks and balances. you food is shaking your i believe in 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 is to investigate police, misconduct, and very no oversight of prosecutors either. bryce with the toil misconduct is a major factor of wrongful convictions. just a single thread that runs through almost all of the wrongful condition cases. jeff gasket back as a masters in criminal justice, specializing in wrongful convictions. he's also a survivor of prosecutorial misconduct. i spent 16 years in prison that was roughly 17, emerged at 32. jeff eventually won a lawsuit against putnam county new york for his section, which enabled him to start his own foundation. and i'm the founder and executive director of the productive foundation for justice. there's no deterrence, there's no oversight. there's no punishment for prosecutors, so they can break the law. they don't face criminal penalties even when they engage and withholding evidence of innocence threatening witnesses, coercing witnesses,

no matter how serious the misconduct is. if the prosecutor commits that after an arrest has been made, they have what's called prosecutorial immunity. they're above the law. you 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 where they're at when, especially when prosecutor's office actually keeps 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 their 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 commit the crime or not get lost in that process because it's all about winning my case immunity. i mean, in the real world, you know,

you're supposed to be held accountable for your own doing so. therefore, if you are a person of authority of authority, do you have to be held at a higher standard than just a lame? i think we actually to step back and kind of 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 the me. if you ever do find yourself wrongfully convicted, odds are you never get. now. the 1st thing you need to do in preservation letters to the police department labs and the courts questing that you want all your evidence said. otherwise, they may destroy it within 30 days. try to find an innocence project that will take your case. prepare for this process to take years. in pray for miracle. the innocence project estimates conservative way there could easily be 40000 to

over 100000 americans, currently wrongfully convicted. the majority of which are people of color to the private investigator never gave up. on his case a very vigorous private investigator who made a complaint to be p in atlanta. on the desk of a internal affairs investigator who looked at braces claims in a very serious minded fashion. ah, the people liked the fact of mon 2 and 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 we leave the competence of the court. we have to have police chiefs, directors of public service that are willing to do the right thing and terminate

employees who are doing the wrong thing. 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 that did this to bruce list or i don't look at myself as a hero. i look at myself as the serve as a survivor because the system attacked me system one after me and the system did everything i could to keep bruce list or 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, i high school sweethearts. we lived on the same street and it's been, it's been a very difficult, difficult road. she is 3rd generation l. a. p d. and 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 up the information that i did to the l a times bruce listener would still be in prison. a bloody footprints that was attributed to bruce in his trial had recently been re analyzed and shown to not been made from bruce issue. so they got his interest in the case and we started talking to is a private investigator and began the 7 month investigation. and the conclusion about they filed an article called a case of doubt that eventually one of them and award one the times and work. i went up sitting between 2005 when the 1st article came out and 2009 in prison for solid ears. a widely recognized innocent man. we knew back in 2003, 2004 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 costs at 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 and all i, tim is a miracle story as well. in late 2000. after 26 years, he made pro, i sign some papers for the pro officer. he said, okay, see you later. didn't ask me how i was getting home. didn't ask me if i had a home. when i realize these people honestly don't give me

to survive, getting a lot harder than it sounds. you may have develop posttraumatic stress disorder agoraphobia. param, lawyer, and require immediate treatment. you want to need food, new clothes, you're going to need money for transportation to and from your parole officer meeting. if you miss a meeting, you could find yourself back in jail. going to need a job, but there's a lot of discrimination out there for employment and housing. speaking of which you're going to need a home. i wouldn't have a home if it wasn't for the rescue, a life foundation to set up a house that transitional housing god and that our nation is what's gotten me by the reason i'm sitting here and not back inside the rescue alive found ation was founded by dwayne macaulay,

who knows how challenging it can be to re enter society. dwayne did 25 years himself from murder after school. we would have to go down to my mother's tricia and hang out all day work around the business. time we had several organizations that would just controlled area, so it was pretty say we had black pastors. ring is organization united ways we had nation a is it was pretty cool. you know, you have to worry about people coming in holding you up and every day you have to worry about that. that's what it was after the call and tell people when they got pushed on the ground, that everything seem like you know, like crazy all above came out in a you know, you will, you will fair game in the store operator. that's why we started having a lot, a lot of burglaries, my mother, she just a little bit late. she was beat up one day while i was there and i grabbed it due to the ground and keep to be reactive. he got the money,

did he figured was enough money, you know, low key and i was probably about 11 years old and, you know, and he had his gun on issue and now didn't mean not to move in just kicking her in and demanding more money and he got all the money we had. she know duane's mother wasn't robbed, ones. she was robbed over and over again. ah, the, the join me every posted on the alex simon show. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport, business and show business. i'll see you then me while we were saying on the show was picking and you've got global hash wor,

cuz i called countries are now competing to accumulate the most bitcoin as part of the game theory that's built into the incentive stack. that is the magic of bitcoin and was unpredictable who exactly would take the 1st step and we had talks about possibly japan possibly around. possibly. russia turns out that nel salvatore is taking the 1st step toward a big point standard, making bitcoin legal standard. doing this breathing technique and then take a pool in the hill and i don't know where it goes back to. to bring that. i need to read a dime, a field trip tomorrow. just didn't read

a vision. she gave me the me i read you but i'll be come in about me being so tight and he smoked, we submit just take this, you need medicaid and lead to other things. you know, lead to co, gay pcp was in lean to my to crime. they had happened, they sent me to prison division for a 2nd degree murder. some dues rob me. they were supposed to been the middleman going to get drugs in, in a be in the robbing me. because it, it happened to us in our business, the family business, so much this guy. he wasn't just the one that was robbing me all the time. he was the image of somebody had been victimized in my family. and in all these other

times you got away with just time you wanna go and get away. so it was kind of like a retaliation thing for you and you, you don't pay for that. and so what i found is that what you can forgive, you end up becoming what you can forgive, you end up becoming so i had to learn how to forgive and let a go. and i had to learn how to forgive him. and that they go because he was also after i got to see his record and the guy had a rough seat, you know, from here from one sided room to the other. you know, and i, and i could see that, you know, he needed the same help that i need. we are generally taught to imagine that there is such thing as, for example, a murderer and other words, 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. like that's what it's like, a vocation, right? that's what murderers do. they go around murdering, right. and that's why you don't let them out of prison out of prison, they're going to murder again. the reality is that like murder is almost always a context of the situation, it is statistically speaking very rarely driven by a compulsion or a desire to do harm. right? it's a reaction to some set of circumstances to a real or perceived threat, to some extreme emotional state. it's not a propensity, basically, we're confusing the profile of a psychopath. the psychopath we've read about, you know, the serial killer with prisoners in general. if we, as a society, stop and imagine that the people in prison are fully human, incredibly diverse, have often been through some of the most extreme and difficult situations and conditions, some of which many of us couldn't even really begin to imagine. then suddenly,

all that judgement and all that hostility and all that vindictiveness doesn't have such a natural place anymore. many of our students have committed murder and felt horrible about their crime. as soon as it happened, it's not like they needed to sit in prison for 15 or 20 years to realize they've done a bad thing or to never want to do it again. there is 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, that's what a set up for all they want. that's not what it's there for, not in california, and not in a lot of places, get some systems 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 go back within 5 years. that's success. rate of 20 percent. imagine

if we had those requirements of airplanes. wow. 8 out of 10 airplane pulling out of the sky. it's a little bit crazy making and that is department of justice. that's federal government research. dr. michael coil attended harvard university as a ph. d and justice studies. and as a professor of criminal justice, the california state university. dr. coil says the prison not only increases criminal behavior that has 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 children? how are they impacted? what other chances of success in life start to go down? what, how does that impact the community loss of resources in that community? more demands in that community. now to help, to help this family, maybe the other parent, maybe the children. so clearly a failure by every measure that you look at it that i think we just need to. we

think the whole thing and not just keep trying to put lipstick on this bag because that's what we're doing. but 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 people imagine, well, what do you do with people if you don't put them in prison when, when they've done wrong, there are other alternatives. just asking that the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its presence, hebrews, 133. remember those who are in chains as if you were in chains with them? we don't. we put everybody at risk. my husband dan was a police officer and he was killed in the line of duty. my goal at the trial was to get the man who killed my husband, convicted of 1st degree murder and be given the death penalty. and that's what i

got. that's what happened. i thought okay, here it is. i got justice. i'm going to be free from this, and it didn't happen. it was just a lie, it, it didn't change anything. a kayla cheryl, the famous for brokering the truth between the credits and the bloods in 1992. then in 2004, he experienced an unimaginable tragedy. my oldest son was murdered from when a break college and i was shocked to death at a party. my daughter called me, was like a dad to get together on system street in the projects and stuff and talking about going on a mission put around. so i jumped in my car and i drove over there to the projects and i jumped out the car and i, i said a i said man, we played this i for 924 two's game long enough. i'm like, you know, it's left is all blind and toothless. you know, and i'm like when, without anybody here to provide direction in guidance for the kids and the young

folks and the parents in the loved ones that are left by like, i'm like, let's, let's do 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. the brown kids were in trouble and do it for everybody's kids. we have to demand ones for all an ends to believe, team and prisons 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've decided we can't help in the prison use the money for restorative justice programs re abs and social services. there has to be citizen oversight and accountability for all our public service. luckily for us, we have access to all of the data. if you have any interest in injustice or equal access to opportunity in this country, all the data, luckily is out there. it's just a matter of whether you give i was survival depends on being logical. i was the

bible depends on being smart and our survival depends on love for each other and love for yourself. the had a good monday morning to you how fornia man finally free. after serving 16 years for a crime, he didn't commit. i didn't think it was really so much charlie's in business and i'm trying to describe, ah, unbelievable feeling. that was just an emotional rollercoaster that you know. i mean, i cried, walking out of the magnitude of all these years. my now here it is, and then a moment later i would be to bewildered to cry and i would just be in

that that whole day was really scary for a lot of people. like, think that it would be like i was terrified there were well wishers well wishers there of officers that knew that i think they knew the truth. certainly knew the character, you know, my character. and then i was in the parking lot. ah, the air smell different i wish my mom could have been there, which my dad could have been there was my step mom could have been there. but i think in a way they were ah, news like, i don't want tony. i just felt like running like just getting as far away from that

place as i possibly have to answer that everybody would think that i would have but it was a joy's time for me. i mean like literally scared to death. my cousin was waiting for me, my private invest, it was waiting for me and i said, you would actually say and i looked at paul and i said, you know, let's get this stuff on the truck out of here. and we couldn't leave fast enough. i thought that would i have breakfast and i was like, amazed at just the syrup menu, it just was overwhelming. like it was completely overwhelming. i. i haven't been in a vehicle without being chained that my feet. i was waste chain and then handcuffs,

hook to the waist. and in a paper jump suit for 26 years. ah, yeah. the the or to just try to try to figure it out. do i have to kind of figured out word out like how do you adjust? come up with a tiny mars that are the oxygen is playing with their i don't think i'm adjusted. ah the

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