jobs. how can we trust them in the future? who can we really trust? reporter: randi kaye, cnn, houston. in reporting the story, randi tried to talk to the arbitration board and the national association of arbitrators but was unsuccessful. and although houston s police chief refused to speak to us on camera, randi requested an interview with someone else in the department, but no one was made available. joining us to talk a little more about this, mark geragos, criminal defense attorney, and cnn legal analyst. mark, when you hear the details of the rape case that randi just reported on, the negligence, sounds sickening. how is it possible that an officer like it can get his job back? you know, what they do and what happened i think in this case is they said, look, he wasn t adequately trained. therefore, you can t blame him. the irony of this is that it opens up the department itself to liabilitywhereas the officer nothing basically happens to
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him, and the taxpayers are going to end up footing the bill, number one. and number two, the case is going to be irreparably damaged so that you never get any justice for the victims. that s the irony, i guess, and a horrible irony in this case. an expert we spoke to for the story, this story believes that a big part of the problem is that the police union has, what, a 50% say in who the arbiters are. what s your take on that? well, again, part of the problem is, you know, you re dealing with politicians at almost every level here. and the police union endorsement is vital to anybody who s running for office. you don t see anybody running against the police union. and therefore, they carry an awful big stick in addition to, as you say, the fact that they ve got a 50% shot at selecting who s going to be there. let me reiterate that it s the houston police chief that s handing down these punishments on his own officers that are then being reversed or reduced.
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