Caught this headline on the wakeup

"A man who was wrongly convicted of murder when he was 14 clears his name after 27 long years"

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/us/ny-wrongly-convicted-man-exonerated-trnd/index.html

Which lead me to police officer Louis Scarcella

As of this time last year...7 convictions had been exonerated based on his handy work...

"Despite 7 Scrapped Convictions, Prosecutors Say Ex-Detective Broke No Laws"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/nyregion/louis-scarcella-murder-dismissals.html

...which I think is up to 9 currently...

and how does the NYPD rectify the misconduct...by celebrating of course

"Polarizing Former New York Detective Will Be Honored by His Peers"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/nyregion/louis-scarcella-nypd.html

"Mr. Scarcella’s legal problems started in 2013, during an election season, when Charles J. Hynes, who was then Brooklyn’s district attorney, was under pressure from a challenger, Ken Thompson, to address the way his office had handled wrongful convictions.

Mr. Hynes eventually helped to overturn the guilty verdict of David Ranta, partly blaming Mr. Scarcella for botching the murder case. When Mr. Thompson became the district attorney in 2014, he began a broad investigation — still ongoing — of what was ultimately more than 70 of Mr. Scarcella’s old cases. So far, prosecutors have reversed the convictions in eight of those cases, and judges have overturned another few, but the district attorney’s office has repeatedly maintained that Mr. Scarcella has not committed any punishable conduct or broken the law.

Throughout this process, Mr. Scarcella has gotten death threats, and on two or three occasions has been confronted by would-be assailants at his local grocery store. In his retirement, he tried to start a commercial diving business, but it failed. These days, he largely takes care of his six grandchildren and refers to himself in his Brooklyn-accented French as an “au pair.”

He said he was moved when Mr. Wilde called a few weeks ago to say that the retired detectives association was honoring him. “It hit me very positively,” Mr. Scarcella said. “I got a little emotional.”

While the Police Department declined to comment on the event, Ronald Kuby, a lawyer who has represented a number of people who claim that Mr. Scarcella framed them, said that the event would not reflect well on the former lawmen who planned to attend.

“For those who think Scarcella was merely one bad apple,” Mr. Kuby said, “all you have to do is look at the barrel of detectives who will be there to honor him to realize there is systemic rot.”



So when somebody says...not all cops are bad cops...let them know about Louis Scarcella.

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