{"id":276587,"date":"2016-10-31T17:23:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T16:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/comeys-blindside-youre-just-a-cop\/"},"modified":"2016-10-31T17:23:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T16:23:33","slug":"comeys-blindside-youre-just-a-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/comeys-blindside-youre-just-a-cop\/","title":{"rendered":"Comey\u2019s Blindside: You\u2019re Just a Cop"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Every day, it seems, we talk about Prison America; the profitable high growth industry that entombs millions of our people\u2026 stealing years, often decades, of their lives while destroying families and communities along the way\u2026 as we continue to subsidize a vicious, sagging economy built upon death\u2026 not life. Though the debate centers largely on the question of why we continue to prosecute and bury mostly young people of color and poverty for drug crimes and other non-violent offenses, the equation often misses a core component of the challenge concerning how to control willful cops\u2026 those in uniform and out\u2026 who cross the line with mostly unbridled power to dictate who goes to prison and who does not, whose reputation remains solid and whose becomes soiled, and then set about to do whatever it takes to see their view of justice be had.<\/p>\n

In the US, result oriented justice<\/a> is not new or even creative; it\u2019s as old as the frontier sheriff with boundless power to rule with a firm hand to control who got to walk down the streets of Dodge and who did not. Of course, cops plant evidence, coerce statements and entrap folks\u2026 that\u2019s a given. Torture, rendition and agent stings are very much now the norm. No breaking news here. Ultimately, when all else fails, it\u2019s the modern day version of the old school way to ensure \u201ccase closed\u201d\u2026 another \u201cvictory\u201d for those who not only relish their power but see its arbitrary…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo by DonkeyHotey | CC BY 2.0 Every day, it seems, we talk about Prison America; the profitable high growth industry that entombs millions of our people\u2026 stealing years, often decades, of their lives while destroying families and communities along the way\u2026 as we continue to subsidize a vicious, sagging economy built upon death\u2026 not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}