I’m telling you, your vote for sheriff, prosecutor and judges at any level is critically important. These people can do a lot of good or a ton of damage. Check out this outrageousness:

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/l-a-county-sheriff-targets-reporter-after-cover-up-exposed-138706501524?cid=eml_mra_20220427&user_email=8d0a0f0c503a831cfa9c2cdb94d9a157b471715a1d22a14f9b3f572f6a8d9ae4

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-04-26/l-a-times-protests-sheriffs-criminal-leak-investigation-against-reporter

This guy in the boy scout/Smokey the Bear uniform looks like he has some inside knowledge on “obstruction of justice.” Talk about abuse of power. Way to wield that pointer, pal.

When Jerry Sandusky’s crimes came to light in 2011, the world thought it was the first time Joe Paterno and Penn State had faced a serial sexual predator in their midst. But that was not the case. This is the story of the predator who had come before.
— Read on www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/32496588/before-jerry-sandusky-penn-state-football-had-another-serial-sexual-predator-untold-story-crimes-fight-bring-justice

The obstacles of indifference, obstruction and time. Glad someone with a big audience wrote about it. Glad this monster wound up in prison before Hell.

Here is an interesting article about friends of a young murder victim who used TikTok to find justice for their friend and find the murderer.

https://www.thecut.com/2022/04/daisy-de-la-o-murder-suspect-instagram-tiktok.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=My Week in New York – April 23, 2022&utm_term=Subscription List – My Week in New York

The article addresses overworked police departments and what is essentially victim-blaming in the case of female victims. Cases that lose steam and fall by the wayside. Why, indeed, should people have to go to social media and blogs to try to put pressure on a police department to solve murder cases?

Often, those searching for someone else have at least one thing in common: grief, maybe, but also a general mistrust of the criminal-justice system, a sense that they have been failed or abandoned by police and prosecutors and journalists, that crowdsourced vigilantism is the only avenue for justice.

A Murder Solved in DMs
 When Daisy De La O was killed, friends looked to social media for the man they suspected had done it. They found him.

Imagine if your family member was a victim in a case where there is a 45-year history of the heaviest of ass-covering going on by prosecutors and state police? That is the OCCK case. Try moving those two agencies to do the right thing. We were failed and abandoned by police, prosecutors, journalists and a community that was all too eager to find a reason to look the other way and never demanded answers. We are still owed answers about the crimes themselves and the cover up that further damaged not only victims’ families, but entire communities. TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and blogs cannot capture the depravity of public officials who buried this case, let alone the depravity of the killers of four kids. We know what you did. You know you will never have to answer for it.