It Is Time We Treat Police Brutality as a National Crisis

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33. Mark Fuhrman apparently just loved busting heads

the guy in the OJ Simpson trial who we found out used the "N" word all day long. The guy who described the many times he was violent with minorities and liked it, beating up Mexicans and black people. During the OJ trial, there was even a Jewish Rabbi who came forward to describe how Fuhrman saw him on the street and beat the crap out of him while his wife looked on in shock. Of course Judge Ito didn't allow that evidence in, nor did he allow any of Fuhrman's personnel file to be made public. That's one thing that I would like to see changed, require every servant of the public in a police uniform to make their personnel and disciplinary file open to the public on demand. What galled me too during the OJ case is that former LAPD police chief Daryl Gates was privately allowed access to Fuhrman's personnel file. Gates was then a civilian after his retirement. That's just unacceptable. Gates is the wonderful humanitarian who was called to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the war on drugs and said on the record that casual drug users should be taken out and shot. Gates while he was police chief in L.A. authorized use of the choke hold despite the deaths of several black men. when asked why he continued to allow its use by police officers.Gates blamed the victims, with the incredible statement that "blacks might be more likely to die from chokeholds because their arteries do not open as fast as they do on 'normal people.'" When the chief of police is inherently violent and glorifies violence like Gates and when his detectives like Fuhrman are the same, I think the only answer is to keep a close watch. And make all their records including their personnel files absolutely public so we know what we're dealing with.