Margaret Kimberly
“Police brutality and prosecutorial misconduct are two heads of the same monster.”
Many Americans love to think that their country is the epitome of progress, democracy, and enlightenment. Millions of people will say that this is “the greatest country in the world.” These words are obviously born of ignorance and a belief in the superiority of the ultimate white settler state.
In fact, it can be argued that the United States has the worst human rights record of any of the “advanced” or “developed” nations of the world. It is the worst because of its blatant allegiance to white supremacy. Equal justice under the law is allegedly an American value, but those words are lies because of the never ending addiction to racism and violence. The worst, cruelest punishments are meted out to black people and the perpetrators have little fear of paying a price.
Aside from having a larger military budget than all other countries combined, the United States leads only in the number of people it keeps behind bars. There is a direct correlation between the enormous number of incarcerated, more than 2.4 million, and corruption on the part of the country’s prosecutors. No one knows how many of America’s prisoners are innocent but it is clear that a system built to put as many black people as possible in the confines of the criminal injustice system is not particularly concerned about whether all those in the gulag ought to be there.
“There is a direct correlation between the enormous number of incarcerated, more than 2.4 million, and corruption on the part of the country’s prosecutors.”
Police and prosecutors work hand in hand to keep the cogs coming into the machine. Police brutality and prosecutorial misconduct are two heads of the same monster and there is little legal recourse for the victims.
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