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Funny how the people who rightly opposed a disastrous, trillion-dollar war based on lies — one that killed hundreds of thousands of people — keep paying a professional price for it. Meanwhile, the people who were wrong are still taken seriously. https://t.co/TMmM9noV18

— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) October 13, 2018

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The Epidemic of Wrongful Convictions in America

In “The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist,” Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington tell a haunting true-crime tale of systemic incompetence and racism.

These two black men were convicted of murders they didn’t commit. They were two more black men on death row for decades, put there by a system of corruption and incompetence so mind-boggingly vast as to feel unfixable. 

Both these men were saved by the Innocence Project, by DNA evidence. They are powerful, compelling stories in themselves. But the book goes far beyond telling just their stories. It explains in infuriating detail how two men, for decades, abused the criminal justice system and personally enriched themselves by using faulty junk science and making it far too easy for the police to rely on them for the testimony that would help put someone in jail. 

This is the book high school students should be reading to understand systemic racism and how far we have to go to reach an equitable society. 

And, yes, this is Mississippi. And Mississippi might be the worst. It probably is. But we’re lying to ourselves if we tell ourselves other places are so very different. In the past two decades, innocent people have been freed from prisons all over the country thanks to DNA evidence. 

I have never been called for jury duty, which seems odd to me since I am a regular voter. But if I am, I’ll be really grateful to have read this book before being asked to serve. 

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78 percent of Trump voters think crime is worse since Obama's 2009 inauguration. Crime has fallen by 20 percent. https://t.co/FasTcideql

— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) January 26, 2017

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Matthew T. Mangino: Federal government complicit in militarization of police | minnesota.allembru.com

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