an engagement because the trail when so many find themselves will depart, we choose to look for common ground in this is your media a reflection of reality? the in a world transformed what will make you feel safe for the tycer lation community? are you going the right way or are you being that somewhere? which direction? what is truth? what is faith in the world corrupted? you need to defend the join us in the depths. will remain in the shallows. ah,

i don't think that comes right on police report. you have in december 2020 a group of anti finishes. fill out a film crew access for 3 months. there's no like if people organization, it's an idea that must be opposed that channel out the gate route. they make their faces. but they can say what they believe and we will even help our community. we believe that fascism is one of the major threats to the united states has gotten driven. this is a chance to see who and teeth are really are. in order for me to exercise my 1st amendment right and say that my life matter, i have to be onto the teachers that that's how we can trust the police. we can trust the government. we can't trust anyone except ourselves to protect ourselves in

the me. a grandmother doing life for murder was released from prison yesterday. after 17 years, when a judge said she did not doing. 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 a heretic,

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 and he had a great life insurance and it was 184000. and my dad left me and i was able to partner 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, chest 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, or was i spoke to him when somebody is accused of murder or you're 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 too, and it was never put back in 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 with 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. if it turns out that the person's actually innocent, and this is what my lieutenant said, that does not get out of prison. do you understand me, sergeant cabin, they will do everything they can to stop. you prevent you from coming forward with the information you have. upon reviewing the comprehensive work of the private investigator at the p. d. internal affairs department claimed versus complaints were unfounded, and no misconduct had occurred. you can have an internal investigation where we all

investigate ourselves, that like a general my mom against the stories or anything like that. i'm just a gift 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 there are no oversight of prosecutors either. bryce with the toil misconduct does a major factor of wrongful convictions, just a single thread that runs through almost all of the wrongful condition cases. jeff jessica beck as a masters and 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 georgia destiny 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. 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 where they are to win, 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, there's 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 gets lost in that process because it's all about winning my case. amusing that, i mean, in the real world, you know, you're supposed to be held accountable for your wrong don't. and so therefore, if you are a person of authority of authority, do you have to be held at a higher standard than just elaine me, 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. do 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 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 800000 americans, currently wrongfully convicted. the majority of which are people of color the private investigator never gave up. on his case a very vigorous private investigator who made a complaint to the de atlanta on the desk of a internal affairs investigator who looked at bruce's 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 lose 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 a sort of as a survivor, because the system attacked me. system went after me and the system did everything i could to keep bruce liquor 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 their 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 footprint 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 in award. when the time's award, 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, 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 cole 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 and all i, tim is a miracle story as well. in late 2000 valve, after 26 years,

he made pearl. i signed some papers for the pro officer. he said, okay, see you later didn't asked me how i was getting home. didn't ask me if i had a home. when i realized these people honestly don't give me to survive, getting out a lot harder than it sounds. you may have develop post traumatic 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 missed a meeting, you could find yourself back in jail. when i 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 the house, transitional housing god. and that allegation is what's gotten me by it's the reason i'm sitting here and not back inside the rescue alive found ation was founded by duane mc galloway, 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 to my mother's dress shop and hang out all day work around the business. a dead time we had several organisations . they were just controlled area. so it was pretty say we had the black panthers ring is on vase 90 slays we had the 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 thing like, you know,

my crazy all above came out in a, you know, you will, you will fair game in the store operator. that's one is we started having a lot, a lot of burglaries, my mother, she just a little bit late. she is beat up one day while i was there and i grabbed it due to the ground and keep doing better after he got the money and he's 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 rob. once she was robbed over and over again. the the join me every thursday on the alex simon show. and i'll be speaking to guess in the

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the me. i had a good friend, even me come in about me being so tight and he smoked, we submit just take me through medicare and lead to other things. you know, lead to cocaine and pcp was in lean to my crime that happened. they sent me to prison division for a 2nd degree. murder to do is rob me. they were supposed to been the middleman going to gets jobs and in the, in the rob the 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 in all these other times you had got away

with this time you weren't going to get away. so it was kind of like vs de retaliation thing for you and you, you don't pay for that file, 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 it go. and i had to learn how to forgive him. that they go because he was also after i got to see his record. and this 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. in 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?

i think that's what it's like, a vocation, right? that's what murders do. they go around murdering. right. and that's why you don't let them out a principal 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 their help society. they can say they, that's what is set up for all they want. that's not what it's therefore 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 go back within 5 years. success rate of 20 percent mentioned

if we had those requirements of airplanes. wow. 8 out of 10 airplanes falling out of the sky. it's a little bit crazy making, and that is department of justice. they. that's the 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 deleterious effect on society in the 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 the community now to help to help this family, maybe the other parent, maybe the children. it's 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 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, but it's hard. people imagine, well what do you do with people if you don't put them in for then when, when they've done wrong, there are other alternatives. just to ask. he said, the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its presence, hebrews, $133.00. 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, it was just a lie, it, it didn't change anything. a kayla cheryl's is famous for brokering the truth between the credits and the blood in 1992. then in 2004, he experienced an unimaginable tragedy. my oldest son was murdered. from when a break, college was shocked to death at a party. my daughter called me and was like a dad didn't get together on system street in the projects. and stephanie, talking to my 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 might, without anybody here to provide direction and guidance for the kids and the young

folks and the parents and the loved ones that are left behind. 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 once in for all an ends to believe team, and this is for profit, the 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't help in 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 and injustice or equal access to opportunity in this country, all the data, luckily is out there. so it's a matter of whether you get i was survival depends on being logical. i was the

bible depends on being slight and our survival depends on love for each other and love for yourself. the had a good monday morning to you, our fornia man, finally free. after serving 16 years for a crime, he didn't commit. i didn't think it was really so i so much how he's in business and i'm trying to describe, ah, unbelievable feeling. i was just an emotional rollercoaster that, you know. i mean, i cried, walking out. it was just 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 i

that that whole day was really scary for me. a lot of people like think that it would be like yay. but i was terrified. there were well wishers well wishers there of officers that knew that i think they knew the truth and 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 once i got on the other side, 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 a joyous time for me. i mean, like, literally scared to death. my cousin was waiting for me, my private invest. it was waiting for me. i said, do on here. what actually? 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 may just the 3rd mean you just was overwhelming. like it was completely overwhelming. i haven't been in a vehicle without being chained that my feet. i would waste chain and then handcuffs

took to the waist. and in a paper jump suit for 26 years. ah ah, the word of just trying to figure out who i have to. i'm still trying to figure out like how do you object to the planet mars to take the oxygen with the or i don't think i'm adjusted. ah, the

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ah, what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy foundation, let it be an arms race is on often very dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical of time. time to sit down and talk when i would chose the wrong when i was just don't the room. yes. to fill out the thing because the after an engagement equals the trail,

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