Jeffrey Deskovic, an exoneree himself (NY), writes about the increase in wrongful convictions being overturned in the US from a very personal perspective. He focuses on the root causes of these injustices such as incentivised witnesses (aka snitches), prosecutorial misconducti, dishonest judges and cops, and forensic fraud and junk science like bitemarks.

His statements about forensic junk science and fraud are particularly telling and parallel what I have posted about. here, here, and here.

It is no surprise that forensic associations like the American Academy of Forensic Sciences refuses to admit that they sponsor one sub-group which still promulagates ‘bitemark identification’ (without the use of DNA) in courts. My post on that subject is here.

This is an excerpt from Deskovic’s article. His POV is clear.

Junk science. For 40 years, FBI experts have testified in court about “bullet lead analysis” a procedure in which bullets…

After 36 years……

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/dc-man-imprisoned-by-flawed-fbi-forensic-evidence-exonerated/2015/05/23/ed382f70-00c6-11e5-8b6c-0dcce21e223d_story.html

This all boils own to lack of $$  incentives for police agencies to do real and thorough policing.

Instead of swatting marijuana users (recreational and medical pot criminalization) , the cops need to get off the drug-war-gravy-train (Fed$$) and their asset forfeiture bonanza ) and protect countless victims of sexual assaults. Missouri is the latest example of how distorted police priorities are regarding “public safety.” Read more.  Notable in this abhorrent failure to investigate, is the fact that cops have to re-open years old rapes and assaults, and then track down the victims, many of whom are still traumatized and have feelings of abandonment and shame since being attacked. Other jurisdictions, which have cleared their backlogs, found numerous examples of serial rapists left to roam the streets for years. It is apparent there is little to no concern about this until the media started embarrassing law enforcement (LE) around the…