An Ethnic Profile: U.S. Air Force Blue to San Francisco P.D. Blue
I would like to reach young police officers who have no idea what it took to open doors of opportunity, pre 1970. It was presumed that we were less competent, and when we offered new ideas we were treated like vermin. Many of us had college training, believed what we were taught, but not allowed to influence change. One example is: “We would prefer 100 guilty to go free than to convict one innocent person,” while truth was that arrests equaled promotions, and it did not matter that the suspect was innocent. When we asked to have record of those we knew were innocent expunged, we were told that we were on the side of criminals: “In most cases the suspect was ethnic minority!” We are paying for many who spent decades proclaiming their innocence, now DNA proves they were telling the truth.