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- The police and prosecutors involved in this (and others) should be stripped of their possessions, prosecuted and sentenced to serve out the remainder of these sentences..
Where I come from, they'd be eating dirt. - Reply to this comment
- Whether this has anything to do with the article it is still something the public needs to know before passing judgement on the police...
Chicago has to be one of the largest cities that police brutality is yelled when they do do their job. Black neighborhoods are the first to pickett the police aren't doing enough. When they try to, even shooting a criminal caught red handed, fleeing the scene, the neighborhood citizens cry police brutality. "He didn't have to shoot him, he wasn't hurting anyone". "He was a good boy, went to church every Sunday". One of the best was when a man was in a stand off with the police and pointing a gun, "They didn't have to shoot him, the gun wasn't even loaded".
There has to be more innocent victims in Chicago than any other city shot in drive-bys, usually children playing in their front yard. Again, if the shooter is caught, which is pretty often, the cry goes out he couldn't have done it, insisting the cop be charged with murder, even though they know the one shot is in a gang fighting with another gang for territory to sell drugs. There were more killings in Chicago's south/westside this last summer than ever before. 80% or more were gang related.
Before the early 90s police were known to beat a confession out of someone. That was put a stop to and several cops who were already retired were brought to trial and found guilty on cases of coerced confessions. Many who were guilty were releasted from prison because of this.
Few cops are going risk his/her job/retirement in the 21st century by beating or using coerced tactics to get a confession by an innocent person even though the pressure is on him/her to close the case. "Damned if you do, damned if you don't". This is Chicago's police force when trying to do their job in many parts of the city. - Reply to this comment
- "One reason may be the way police go about questioning suspects."
Ya think??? - Reply to this comment
- its mind numbing that someone like anita alverez could be in a position of power like this and be so incredibly stupid and racist. they had DNA evidence from BOTH cases showing someone else VERY likely committed these crimes. Id like to see what her attitude would be if it was HER son being charged. she needs to be IMMEDIATELY removed from this job.
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- I found Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez to be terrifying.
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- Welcome to the American Justice System....
This really makes you think, how many innocent people are behind bars - 7 teenage boys sent to prison, just to think how much money was used to first convict these boys, then to keep them locked up for all those years, and they are all innocent....politicians and bureaucrats like Anita Alvarez - the American people are allowing their country to be destroyed from within when they allow people like Anita Alvarez to represent them....think about her statement on Necrophilia:
Having sex with a dead person.
Anita Alvarez: It's possible. We have seen cases like that.
Byron Pitts: Possible?
Anita Alvarez: It is. We've seen it in other cases.
Sure, Anita Alvarez has a nice office and a large pay cheque to go with it, but it is people like her, working in the US government - the very decision makers who are responsible for what is happening to America today - these people are locking up innocent people and allowing the real crooks to PILLAGE America...greed, corruption and power is the fuel for these CORRUPT elected officials....it is so sad those boys spent all those years in jail - then to see what Anita Alvarez had to say!
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- Years ago the Mafia in Chicago would take care of people like Anita Alvarez. For her to get on national TV and say this kind of thing is beyond the pale. She needs to be fired immediately.
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- The only way to fix this is to make the cops, prosecutors and judges pay restitution to the victims, 1/2 of their salaries for every single year that person was falsely imprisoned.
Think that wouldn't solve the problem?
You ruin somebody's life, yours should be ruined. Pure and simple. - Reply to this comment
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%ADsli_Gu%C3%B0j%C3%B3nsson
http://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Interrogations-Confessions-Handbook-Policing/dp/0470844612/ref=la_B001H6N9YA_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1355122729&sr=1-1 - Reply to this comment
- 60 minutes should interview the Icelander Gisli Hannes Gudjonsson, CBE (born 26 October 1947) is a Professor of Forensic Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry of King's College London. He is an internationally renowned authority on suggestibility and false confessions whose expert testimony was the basis for the convictions of the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four being overturned. He created the Gudjonsson suggestibility scale to measure how susceptible someone is to coercion during an interrogation.
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