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Interesting, any time a financial tool is created that can help underserved communities increase their economic mobility or build generational wealth, its usually met with resistance 🤔

Here's what happens, a cop commits serious misconduct. The chief suspends him immediately. Often, the cop still gets paid to sit at home, because this is legally required. Internal affairs investigates, but the process is delayed by exasperating legal and contract hurdles. Meanwhile, the community stews: Why hasn’t the chief fired him? Finally, the chief has the evidence to act. If merited, the cop is fired. Months have gone by, but that was the easy part. Now the cop will appeal — because the review process is staggeringly favorable to bad cops. The case goes either to an arbitrator or to a panel, a “civil service commission” appointed by the city council. The arguments are always the same: The chief’s investigation was shoddy; the chief had a vendetta against this particular cop; other cops did this before and weren’t fired; the alleged misconduct wasn’t really that bad. Too often, arbitrators feel the pressure to “split the baby” in their decisions. Perhaps the cop is docked pay or demoted; otherwise, he’s back on patrol. In some states, legislatures have codified these protections in what’s called a “peace officer’s bill of rights.” As I in Florida, an officer accused of wrongdoing is interviewed only at the end of the investigation. State law guarantees him, and his lawyer, an opportunity to review every bit of evidence — every witness statement, any video, all the physical evidence — before he talks to internal affairs. This enables the officer to cast his actions in the best possible light — even to lie about what happened, once he knows the evidence will not disprove the lie. In subsequent arbitration, this becomes a critical tactical advantage. Source

Have a conversation if you like but at the end of the day his opinions are his opinions and you can either move past them and continue being friends, or die on the hill.

The Hog Tie was pretty harsh though. I wonder what precipitated that!

A Lawyer here explained this to me, many times that prosecutors are in a bind when it comes to charging cops with crimes, especially crimes committed on duty. They need the cops in order to get convictions, and when a cop gets indicted his buddies often retaliate by sabotaging the efforts of prosecutors. They "forget" court dates. They botch arrest reports. They louse up their testimony. There are a hundred things cops can do to make a prosecutor's job more difficult. They always deny doing it. These cops make no secret of the fact that they will not tolerate charges against their own for using excessive force against people they see as political adversaries. These bad boys should be fired for, if nothing else, conduct putting the department in a negative light. Point worth making: This was a volunteer squad with no extra pay. They signed up because they enjoy doing battle.

HI Ryan, how can we help the Latino ame Black community unite against injustices?

@Aditya Well they also go thru a 4 week training course, not a 4 year degree like a lawyer. The cops themselves just lack knowledge on the laws they enforce

We need more stories that end this way!!

@Luke Griffen the blog post has an extensive list of “data weapons“, Unfortunately they don’t going to provide examples of how they can be manipulated or with the risks are with each type.

This needs to happens asap!

Got to love Fetterman, the most non political, politician