Posted on 05/05/2015 11:55:30 AM PDT by don-o
Any prosecutor interested in the truth and in justice would have used all the tools at her disposal to find them. Ms. Mosby ignored them. She has one of the most experienced homicide prosecutors in the state of Maryland as chief of her homicide unit, but did not ask him to investigate. She had the police report all of one day before filing charges, her mind already made up. And she failed to make use of the grand jury to gather, probe and test the evidence before a group of average citizens.
In fact, Ms. Mosby was so hasty it appears she locked up two completely innocent officers. She charged Freddie Gray’s arresting officers with “false imprisonment” because she said the knife that Gray had on him was legal. In fact, as The Sun reported, the Police Task Force found it to be illegal after all. It was Ms. Mosby who had no probable cause to lock the arresting officers up, an injustice she could have easily avoided by taking her time.
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In the long run, Ms. Mosby may be undermining the cause of justice rather than promoting it. She has created an expectation of guilt and conviction. If that does not happen, many will blame the system as unfair or unjust, when it may have been Ms. Mosby's own lack of competence and/or arrogance in bringing charges so quickly.
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They're mutually exclusive? Who knew?
“They’re mutually exclusive? Who knew?”
Sorry to burst your pithy comment, but:
Law enforcement or Crime Prevention. Which one do you prefer?
Is not exclusionary. So, which one do you prefer?
For the most part, they are one and the same. Of course, I lived through the implementation of the broken window theory and saw, first hand, the many benefits it provided. Lot of people at the tim, mostly libs, labeled it overzealous law enforcement that had nothing to do with crime prevention. But as is the case with everything liberal, they were wrong.
After a couple of court cases, the police should not be given the benefit of the doubt any longer. The only reason their is any doubt in this case is because the law is confused and vague.
They had moved to various apartments while raising the kids...and the house they now live in is a $112,000 home they purchased in 2011 with settlement money. She mentioned after the shooting that Grey never had a job. Just some interesting stuff I've noted along the way. But obvious the family was quite disfunctional poor and the usual for drug invested home life. That's why they remain poor.
In the areas these officers have to patrol I will always give them the benfit of the doubt over so many of the thugs and druggies there....they make up stories to create stories at a drop of the hat...it’s a highly drug invested area and witnesses can hardly be called that...and we’ve seen so on videos and reported even live as they happen.
Heck they sit on their porches yelling brutality before the police are even on site! So no these people cannot be trusted for information.
Thanks for the insight. What a sad situation, but one that she apparently chose.
Those poor choices run in the family...even when they have other choices...it’s just they want the easy way IMO...until they are so brain fried they can’t learn or maintain much focus.....we saw much of this as reporters interviewed people there.’’The problem is they did make bad choices but want to be rescued from them by making government pay to reatin their lifestyles...and more.
What you’ve said is true and they have never had a more dedicated enabler than the Democrat Party.
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