The ability of rich guys who can buy dream teams caused this travesty of justice. Starting with insistence on minority venue location.
Van atta and Fuhrman were cops. Lots of cops in my family. Very few cops are more than 9-5 guys. It is what it is and cops with ambition are trying to get higher paying positions (for the most part). Those who work the mean streets have a good guy, bad guy attitude and that tends to show up as a racist attitude.
OJ had it all going for him. Rich, a minority, a leftist California Justice system. And too a certain degree cops and forensic experts who didn’t think the rules applied because it never had to before.
> Those who work the mean streets have a good guy, bad guy attitude <
You’re right about that. And in many ways it’s understandable. If you work almost exclusively among thieving and amoral _________ (fill in the blank with any ethnic group), you’re bound to have some bad feelings about that group.
A good cop will fight those bad feelings, and try to remain professional. A stupid and arrogant cop will brag about those feelings on tape. And that’s just what Fuhrman did.