How California Law Shields Violent Cops
Submitted on August 22, 2011
By Ali Winston - August 17, 2011
...[L]awsuits are the only remaining way for records of [police] shooters to become public. As a result, accountability activists say, it is now extremely difficult to keep tabs on officer conduct. Rachel Jackson, an organizer of the Bay Area protests of Oscar Grant’s killing, says the indictment on murder charges of ex-BART Officer Johannes Mehserle, following widespread public outcry, is proof of the point: “If there’s street heat, they’ll do something.”
