“Even when officers get caught, they know they’ll be investigated by their friends, and put on paid leave. My colleagues would laughingly refer to this as a free vacation. It isn’t a punishment. And excessive force is almost always deemed acceptable in our courts and among our grand juries. Prosecuto…”— Redditt Hudson, washingtonpost.comTagged: Police Abuse, Lax Punishment, Police Dismantalization
“But more and more, I felt like I couldn’t do the work I set out to do. I was participating in a profoundly corrupt criminal justice system. I could not, in good conscience, participate in a system that was so intentionally unfair and racist. So after five years on the job, I quit.”— Redditt Hudson, washingtonpost.comTagged: Corrupt Criminal Justice System