AlterNet: Why The Inglewood Cops Won: "Despite the Rampart scandal, and the long history of police abuse cases in L.A., it's still virtually impossible to convince many jurors that some police lie, beat, maim, and even kill unarmed suspects."

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"Given the daunting, even towering obstacles, to taking punitive action against abusive officers, and making it stick, there's no guarantee that the money, time and effort, that Inglewood city officials must expend to fight the case will succeed, and there's every chance that it won't. Yet, they are duty bound to fight anyway. The verdict sent the horribly conflicted message that city officials and police officials tread on dangerous legal ground when they discipline officers, even those that clearly deserve it."

(Via AlterNet.)