The robot must protect its own existence as exist. As the us economy was booming growing numbers of people made homeless. You can work 40 hours in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still is the land of opportunity the reality of it is were not financially equality and the lack of the Affordable Housing for a living minimum wage give many people no choice. Thats been a problem with the city knows turn around and told to stay away oh miss colton concerted effort is no answer because yes that requires resources the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become the invisible comes. A grandmother doing a life for murder was released from prison yesterday after 17 years when i judge said she did not do it susan mellon recently filed a lawsuit against the detective who arrested her for hiding evidence that detectives the same one who arrested reggie. We know as a society we see the bad guy in the good guy well thats cops and robbers but when the cop becomes the robber the game is over the game is over s. Corruption it was a horrific twist of fate that led to reggies release. Was more fortunate his fathers death led to an unexpected turn providence was his big thing in any have you know great Life Insurance and those 184000 that my dad left he was able to parlay that up to about 236. 00 stock market and then it was just 100 percent of my time dedicated to my case and that enabled those to hire a private investigator we have essentially a growing more chest of evidence that i have committed the crime or at least that all the evidence that was presented was it was false evidence i had received a complaint from i flew up to. The state prison where there was i spoke to him once somebody is accused of murder and youre arrested for murder its tape recorded everything is tape recorded i couldnt find his tape d it had been. Taken out of evidence by detective monsoon and it was never put back into evidence. Active months it was said the footprints outside the house matched the footprints on the inside lieutenant gavin found the footprints were actually looked at by a scientist or any qualified expert so we took matters into his own hands so i contacted our people Scientific Investigative Division so he takes hunt this big magnifying glass looks at it looks at the other one a goes these 2 dont match see this is a great embarrassment for any Large Organization that youve convicted somebody for murder and then 51020 years later its true it turns out that the person is actually aniston. And this is what my lieutenant said that is not in that prison do you understand me sergeant kaplan they will do everything they can to stop you per cent you from Going Forward with the information you have upon a deal in the comprehensive work of the private investigator yeah my p. T. Internal Affairs Department claimed his complaints were unfounded and that no misconduct had occurred you cant have an internal investigation were we all investigate our sales. This guy good job to give the glories or anything like that just to give the system that has no checks and balances you who is taking yall i believe internal affairs should be separate from the Police Department there is no way that a Police Department can investigate themselves currently there are no independent organizations whose job it is to investigate Police Misconduct and theres no oversight of prosecutors either. Prosecutorial misconduct dizzee major factor of Wrongful Convictions just a Single Thread that runs through almost all of the Wrongful Conviction cases Jeff Deskovic as a masters in criminal justice specializing in Wrongful Convictions hes also a survivor of prosecutorial misconduct i spent 16 years in prison i was wrongfully convicted at 17. Emerged at 32 jeff eventually won a lawsuit against Putnam County new york prison. Which enabled him to start his own foundation and the founder and executive director of the jeff it just did it but just as theres no deterrent theres no oversight is no punishment for prosecutors so they can break the law they dont face criminal penalties even when they engage in withholding evidence of innocence threatening witnesses coercing witnesses no matter how serious the misconduct as if the prosecutor commits that after an arrest has been made they have whats called prosecutorial immunity theyre above the law the prosecutors to really uphold whats become just words which is you know theyre there to do justice theyre there to do the right thing it becomes more like were there to when expression the prosecutors offices actually keep statistics on conviction rates well you should be credited that you looked at a case where the police thought they had a good case but a good prosecutor looked and said you know what theres some mistakes made here we should drop the charges in this case we should incentivize that but instead we actually incentivize the opposite of getting convictions and getting conviction rates all of a sudden justice gets lost in that process and whether this guy committed the crime or not gets lost in the process because its all about winning my case immunity. I mean in the real world you know you suppose we hold accountable for your wrongdoings so therefore if you are a person of authority already the you have to be held at a higher standard than just a lately i think we actually to step back and kind of rethink the whole system in the way were approaching it because its become this game and peoples lives are lost as a result of it. If you ever do find yourself wrongfully convicted odds are you never get now the 1st thing you need to do is in preservation letters to the Police Department labs and the courts. Questing that you want all your evidence. Otherwise they may destroy it within 30 days try to find it in the sense project itll take you case. This process take years. Before. The Innocence Project estimates conservatively there could easily be 40000 to over 100000 americans only wrongfully convicted the majority of which are people of color. This is private investigator never gave up on his case yet a very vigorous private investigator who made a complaint to the land on the desk of an internal Affairs Investigator who. Looked at bruces claims in a very serious minded fashion. Its the people like the text of the others out there that have made our job very difficult to do day after day because we lose the confidence of the public and with the confidence of the courts we have to have police chief structures of Public Service that are willing to do the right thing and terminate employees who are doing the wrong thing if you want to say youre the good guy but youre ostracized by everybody that you believe then its a very difficult situation because i have to continue to work for the same department that the. I dont look at myself as a hero i look at myself as a sort of as a survivor because the system attacked me system one after me and the system did everything they could to keep her in jail and everything to keep me quiet its been a lot of therapy my wife and i met in 3rd grade we were Elementary Junior High High School sweethearts who lived on the same street and its a been its been a very. If a cold difficult road she is 3rd generation l. A. P. D. And. Their survival is day by day and always looking over your shoulder whether youre doing the right thing or not youre constantly looking over your shoulder and every time i get called into the captains office i wonder what did i do now and ive never had that feeling before i just kept on telling myself they are not going to defeat me theyre not going to defeat me its just when you come across Something Like this what are you going to do and thats the difficult thing if i had not given the information that i did to the l. A. Times bruce lester would still be in prison. A bloody footprint that was attributed to bruce at his trial had recently been reanalyzed and shown to not been made from bruces shoe so they got his interest in the case and we started talking to those that private investigator and began the 7 month investigation and at the conclusion of that they filed an article called the case of doubt that eventually won them an award when the times and i want up sitting between 2005 when the 1st article came out and 2009 in prison for solid years. A widely recognized innocent man we knew back in 20032004 that we had probably a person that was imprisoned for a crime he did not commit and it took 5 years for the courts to work through the the entire system there were a lot of delays because of the conduct of my own Police Department and the conduct of the California Attorney general. And reggie kohl spent 16 years in prison for a crime he didnt commit 10 of those years were spent in solitary confinement and he had to kill another man to get a trial its a miracle reggie got out of all. Thames is a miracle story as well in late 2002. After 26 years he made parole. I signed some papers for the profs or he said ok see you later. Then asked me how i was getting home didnt ask me if i had a home when i realize these people honestly dont give. To survive you know a lot harder than it sounds him into bed with posttraumatic stress disorder agoraphobia prone noya and require immediate treatment you under the food new clothes you gonna need money for transportation to and from your parole officer meeting if you miss a beating you couldnt find you so you are going to be the judge but theres a lot of discrimination out there for employment and speak you know which you corn indeed. I wouldnt have a home if it wasnt for the rescue a Life Foundation to set up a house a transitional housing. God and that foundation. Is whats got me by. A series and im sitting here and not back inside. Found and. Challenging it can be to enter society. 25 years himself after school we would have to go to the moses dress and hang out all day work around the business at that time we had several organizations that we just controlled areas so it was pretty say we have black panthers. Gringas organization 90 sleighs we head the nation. It was pretty cool you know you dont have to worry about people coming in holding you up and everything you have to worry about that helps them but it was after the cointelpro when they get pushed underground that everything. You know were crazy all of those came out in the you know you were you were fair game in the store operators as well as we start out of our burglaries my mother she just. She would beat up and rob one day while i was there and i grabbed the incident running. You got the money and he figured it was enough money you know i was lucky you know i was probably. Years old and you know he had his gun on issues how to move in just you know with his students kicking her in and demanding more money he got all the money we hate you know. Mother wasnt robbed once she was robbed over and over again. Lets talk about profits and scones and London Bridge and the crack up. There. 40 feet or so. Out. Of it is that people. Just. Came out if you did. Manage to finish it oh my. God since we. Dont need. To give. Any. Kind of system definition in. The midst of them random shit. I had a good friend he would always come in about me being so tight and he smokes we submit just take this you need to the right medication and they should not have led to cocaine in the p. C. We shot in the lead to mark a crime that happened in prison and im going to prison for a 2nd degree murder some do is route me they were supposed to be in the middle me going to get drugs in the end of the in the robbing me because it happened to us in business the Family Business so much this guy he wasnt just someone that was robbing me all the time he was the image of somebody he had been victimized in my family and all these other times you got away with just how you want to go to get away so it was kind of like the previous day retaliation thing for you when you are you going to pay for that so what i found is that which you cant forgive and you end up becoming. What you cant forgive you end up becoming. So i had to learn how to forgive and then to go and i had to learn how to forgive him and then they go because he was also after i got to see his record this guy had a rap sheet you know from here from one side of the room to the other you know and i could see you know he needed to same help did i need we are generally magine that there is such thing as for example a murderer and then they were in the murder in the public imagination and then most of our minds whether we thought about it or not initially is someone who likes to murder and who would murder given the opportunity thats what you think of a piece of meat thats what murders do they go around murdering mate and thats why you dont let them out of prison out of prison are going to murder again. The reality is that murder is almost always. To do harm. Incredibly. Through some of the. Situations and conditions some of which couldnt even really begin. Then suddenly. Doesnt have such a natural place anymore. Or. 20 years. Theres no Human Element. To. The criminal justice system. There is no Human Element theyre not there to help you theyre not there to help society they can say they did that thats what a set up for all they want thats not what its there for. Not in california and not in a lot of places its a system set up to punish people and they take a bad situation and they usually make it much worse. You know what the official success rate of state prison is nearly 80 percent of all inmates. Within 5 years thats success rate of 20 percent imagine if we had those requirements of airplanes wow you know 10 airplanes falling out of the sky its a little bit crazy making and that is department of justice the federal Government Research dr Michael Coyle attended Harvard University has a ph d. In just the studies and as a professor of criminal justice at California State University dr coyle says the prison not only increases criminal behavior it has a deleterious effect on society as a whole what happens to a family when the wage earner is removed from society and thrown into prison for 10 years. What happens to those power of a impact one of their chances of success of life start to go down what will how does that impact the Community Loss of resources in our community more demands in the community now to help to help this family maybe the other parent maybe the children its just so clearly a failure by every measure that you look at it and i think we just need to rethink the whole thing and not just keep trying to put lipstick on this pig because thats what i think it is difficult for people to imagine a World Without prisons now weve become so accustomed to the idea of prisons that its hard for people to imagine well what do you do with people if you dont put them interest. And when when theyve done wrong there are other alternatives just ask he said the degree of civilization in a society could be judged by entering its prisons hebrews 133 remember those who are in chains as if you werent serious with them. We dont we put everybody at risk. My husband dan was a Police Officer and he was killed in the line of duty and my goal at the trial was to get the man who killed my husband convicted of 1st degree murder and be given the Death Penalty and thats what i got thats what happened i thought ok here it is i got justice im going to be free from this and it didnt happen and it was just a lie it didnt change anything ok less sheryls a stainless for brokering the truce between the crips and the bloods in 1902 then in 2004 experienced an unimaginable tragedy my oldest son was murdered. From winter break college. And i was shot to death at a party. You know my daughter called me was like the dad you didnt go their own sister mistreat in the projects and stuff and you talking about going on a mission for a trail so i jumped him our car and i drove over there to do projects and i jumped off the car and i are sitting. I said man weve played this high for nontruths fortunes game old enough im like you know its left us all blind into focus you know and i might win without anybody here to provide direction and guidance for the jews and the young folks and the parents and the loved ones that are left behind like im like lets lets do Something Different theres an opportunity here for us to take the wisdom that we know works what we would do for our own kids brown kids were in trouble into a very by these kids. We have to demand a once and for all an end to police scene and. This is for profit. At least half of the people in there are in there for crimes of addiction or economic desperation or Mental Health instead of just throwing everybody that we decide if we can help and the money for restoring justice programs. And social services. There has to be citizen oversight and accountability for all our public servants. We have access to all of any interest. Equal access to opportunity in this country. Matter of. Logical. Love. For yourself. Good monday morning to you how a poignant man finally free after serving 16 years for a crime he didnt commit i dont think it was written to us so much are these invisible. Better. Trying to describe it. Was an unbelievable feeling there was just an emotional roller coaster that you know i mean i cried walking out it was just the magnitude of all these years. Now here it is and then. A moment later i would be too bewildered to cry and i would just be. That that whole day was really scary for a lot of people but i think that it would be like yeah. I was terrified there were well wishers well wishers there of officers of the new that. I think they knew the truth certainly knew the character you know my character and then i was in the parking lot. The air smelled different. And i wish my mom could have been there and wish my dad could have been there which my stepmom could have been. But i think you know where they were. In the school. Like i got on the other side wants her niece i just feel like running like just getting this far away from that place is possibly the best. Not the answer that everybody would think. That i would have but. It was a. Joyous time for me i mean like i literally was scared to death my cousin was waiting for me my private investor. It was waiting for me and i said. You want to hear what i actually said. And i looked at paul and i said you know. Lets get the stuff in the truck get out of here. And we could leave fast enough. The 1st place we stopped there was a. Breakfast and. I was like amazed at just the syrup me. Is just was overwhelming it was completely overwhelming. I havent been in a vehicle without being chained at my feet and with a waist chain and then handcuffs hooked to the waist chain and in a paper jumpsuit for 26 years the. Word of jest what i mean. To try to try to figure it out too i have to. Use to try to figure out word out by. How do you adjust color through the planet mars to earth. Oh you think the ox is the same look here. I dont think im going just. Being. Me. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics for those of us im show business ill see you then. Become a battleground in the u. S. People of demanding the shutdown of a local plant from my yankee is right now my focus because its a very dangerous oh no care power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limits this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on wheres the power in this country wheres it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional for just a few. Power lie with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real ways our struggle. This is whats left of the round that fell on this backyard its really heavy the conflict between armenia and azerbaijan 10 separate told. Communities and. R t reports from the area. Say they have conclusive evidence of militants being brought in from the middle east. We hear from civilians on both sides of the. War is not the. As an armenian i do not want to talk about who is right or wrong but i would like the issue to be resolved through negotiations i dont like what is happening