The Eric Garner case exposes a huge problem with how we hold police officers accountable Mic As protests sweep the country, its time to think critically about the flaws in our justice system. The biggest one involves the conflict of interest that comes when local prosecutors are tasked with charging the police officers already they work with. Richmond County District Attorney Daniel Donovan, like his counterpart Bob McCulloch in St. Louis County, is operating under an inherent conflict of interest, explains Mics Gregory Krieg. When prosecutors are tasked with investigating and charging police officers, theyre being asked to punish members of an organization who are tightly intertwined with their own operations — a big obstacle to ensuring that justice is done.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:47:01 +0000
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