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A blatant example is the bad cop in Tulia Texas some years back. He had a stash of cocaine, and every pay period he'd claim that, working undercover, he'd gotten a black person or two to try to sell him some. The cases were all bogus, there was never any evidence at all except his word and the coke he'd turn in. He was a rotten liar who got a huge proportion of the black population of Tulia thrown in prison.
But despite many of the cases being obviously bad, none of the other good white citizens of the criminal justice system ever saw a thing wrong. For years. It had to wait for advocacy groups to finally get enough pressure up for outside investigations to happen to blow the thing up.
And many in Tulia still don't believe it. Further, most will tell you it was all the one bad cop's fault. That's what seeing what you want to see can do.
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12-28-2014, 10:43 AM
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