I know what you mean.

People should watch We Own This City on HBO. It's a 6 part series about Baltimore's police department's recent corruption scandal. Where an entire unit was acting like a gang selling drugs, robbing from citizens, beating up innocent people and planting evidence. It's concerning how the system was designed to cover it all up, from the rank and file to the union, top brass, and oversight department.

Incompetence is a valid alternative on small, individual events. The lady doing your burger most likely didn't forget the pickle in it out of spite.

When there's multiple avenues of verification, control and authorization, it's a different story. Even without that specific DA, the evidence could have been turned over, things could have gone over her head or she could have been ordered to... Instead every single step after they pretended they were going to hold the cop accountable was specifically geared towards letting him walk.

The cop had two defense teams and a defense judge. There was no justice in those halls.

It's probably a good policy, with the caveat that a lot of people have learned to feign incompetence in an attempt to exploit that kind of reasonable position.

>Some of the withheld evidence included videos from surveillance footage, memos from investigators, communications between prosecutors and cellphones from people arrested after Mr. Franco identified them as drug dealers, Mr. Tanner said in an interview. He described the evidence as “potentially exculpatory.”

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From the actual article. You know. The one you posted.

In the case of New York cops I’d never be surprised. Remember when one cop decided to report his fellow officers numerous criminal dealings, and they had him committed to a mental hospital?

Start by checking the re-assigned attorney's and her family's financial records.

No reputable law firm is going to take on someone who was publicly fired after being named by the New York Times as grossly botching a crucial case and letting a serious (alleged) criminal off scot-free.

Plus, she may well have major problems with the bar.

This sub takes healthy skepticism about law enforcement and feeds it through a fever dream, this is actually pretty mild by contrast. As you say though, this is the end of more than one career, done in a way that was always going to become public. If you were going to tank a case, this is not the way a sane person would do it.

But good luck trying to tell that to people here.

There is some serious irony in a corrupt cop case being screwed up because the prosecutor was corrupt.

> No one is paying that kind of money to get one shitty cop off the hook.

How many shitty cops would threaten murder if she didn't fuck the case up though?

The money or a body bag. It’s not that fine a line.

I’d say there is more to this than “I just forgot to send it”.

She followed orders.

Her boss was the same guy who tanked the case against Trump.

We wish this is how our justice system worked. But it ain’t and this is how they will continue to win (not lose, in this situation).

This is false. Expungement does not require that the detective be convicted.

That sounds important. Any other ways?

You'll have a tough time convincing me that these repeated failures by career prosecutors were simply negligence, but I welcome you to try to make your case, rather than simply making an assertion.

Not everything’s a conspiracy theory man. Yes, it fits the narrative better if the fix was in, but that’s highly unlikely to be what actually took place.

Not saying stuff like this doesn’t happen, but I almost 100% guarantee you nobody cares about this detective in the DAs office. Certainly not enough to throw one of their own peoples career away over it.