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BY RAUL HERNANDEZ<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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When communities try to hold police<\/strong>
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Civilian oversight is undermined by politicians and police, who contend citizens are ill-equipped to judge officers<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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A painting of Valente Acosta-Bustillos is flanked by names and portraits of others who were fatally shot by law enforcement officers in New Mexico. It’s outside the Albuquerque offices of the Southwest Organizing Project. (Adria Malcolm for The Washington Post)To read the Washington Post Story click here:\u00a0 Policing in America<\/a>
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JUST SAYING<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
By Raul Hernandez<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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Here are some suggestions of what communities can do to hold police accountable:<\/span>
\nWeed out the thugs with guns and badges by firing them.<\/span>
\nBreak up the Ole Boy Club Houses headquarters at the police departments throughout the nation. Incompetent police chiefs are being promoted within police departments, so nobody is ever held accountable.<\/span>
\n\"\"<\/a>Vote out politicians in the back pockets of police unions and thumb their noses at legitimate complaints by citizens against cops. Many of these complaints against cops are made at City Council meetings.<\/span>
\nHold accountable District Attorney’s Offices that consistently excuse and never prosecute police officers for brutality or the killing of unarmed people.<\/span>
\n\"Rodney<\/a>Start looking at the terms and fine print of police union contracts signed by the Mayor and City Council members. Find out if there is a pattern of extravagant union perks and outrageous overtime. This money could go to other programs in the community for young or older people.<\/span>
\nFind out who on City Council keeps getting the police union’s endorsements and campaign contributions. How are these council members voting on policing, and what are their views on police misconduct and brutality?<\/span>
\nMake citizen complaints against police public records along with statistics from Internal Affairs investigations.<\/span>
\nStart launching Department of Justice investigations throughout the country against problematic police departments. These investigations were done in the past but discontinued by the Trump administration.<\/span>
\n\"\"<\/a>Hold the local media accountable. When was the newspaper or TV station in your city published or aired a story about police brutality or how cop complaints are handled?<\/span>
\nReporters and editors, especially those on local TV, tend to be lazy. They would instead report feel-good, happy news than serious stories.<\/span>
\nCall local news networks and newspapers and ask to speak to the editors.<\/span>
\nIf they ignore the community, cancel subscriptions, or boycott TV advertisers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Washington Post Editorial Opinion: <\/span>The Supreme Court calls a halt to its progress on juvenile sentencing<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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On Thursday, The court stopped progressing<\/a> on this moderate and humane road. By a vote of 6 to 3, the justices ruled that states are not obligated to make a legal finding that a juvenile defendant is \u201cpermanently incorrigible\u201d before imposing life without parole \u2014 even though common sense, and some of the court\u2019s own past words, suggest that\u2019s what locking a child up forever means, according to the Washington Post.<\/span><\/p>\n

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JUST SAYING<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Supreme Court’s 6 to 3 decision is draconian. It allows state judges to look into crystal balls without relying on factual evidence to sentence a juvenile to spend the rest of his life inside a cage.<\/span>
\nThe only way out of prison is in a body bag.<\/span>
\nHad robed clown Kavanaugh, who “loved beer” and enjoyed attending parties during his younger years, plowed into and killed a family of four in an SUV while DUI, right about now, he would be up for parole. In California, if this is a second DUI, it could result in murder charges and decades in prison.<\/span>
\nWould society be safe if young Kavanaugh would have been locked up without the possibility of parole?\u00a0 Some would argue that yes because of where Kavanaugh ended up.<\/span>
\nLet’s face it. Most of us have done things as kids that would have landed us in prison for a long time.<\/span>
\nKavanaugh notes that a juvenile can always file a petition for clemency.\u00a0 Even after weighing a prison record that indicates that an inmate has been a model prison and has earned degrees in college, most governors will not grant clemency.<\/span>
\nThis is because most governors and state legislators, especially Republicans, don’t have the testosterone to be fair and compassionate. These are the people who cage children.<\/span>
\nIt would be political suicide to do so.<\/span>
\nThe political knives will come out. TV ads that a governor or state legislator is “soft on crime” and lets out crazed killers out of prison.<\/span>
\nPoliticians know their audience:\u00a0 Skittish voters scared of their own shadows and bum-rush the toilet paper aisles at the grocery store.<\/span>
\nKavanaugh’s judicial ruling is limited to his white-gated-community view of the world and grasp of this fact:\u00a0 A young brain doesn’t mature until the mid-to-late 20s.\u00a0 This means teens are more likely to engage in risky behaviors without considering the potential results of their decision, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.<\/span>
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\nAll rise.<\/span><\/p>\n

Washington Post Opinion: <\/span>The hidden scam behind Tucker Carlson and the right\u2019s \u2018replacement\u2019 game<\/strong><\/p>\n

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