Court blocks Inglewood from destroying police disciplinary records
Having police disciplinary records is important for criminal defendants. Sometimes prosecutors keep what is called &quot;Brady Lists&quot; of all the cops who are known liars who should be kept away from the witness stand or else their credibility will be ruined and the prosecutor will lose their case. So prosecutors have tried to keep these lists secret because they need bogus cops as these cops will go to any lengths to convict a person, just like the prosecutor&#x27;s office.<p>If the disciplinary records can be destroyed then this is a huge bonus for the government as without them the cops are totally clean.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Brady_v._Maryland#Aftermath" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Brady_v._Maryland#Aftermath</a><p>In my criminal case, of the two officers that indicted me, one badly beat an unarmed Mexican man who had committed no crime and then lied about it to the investigators saying that the man &quot;ran into the front of the squad car&quot; (luckily the investigators believed the passers-by who testified); the other cop was caught making up fake search warrants to go through people&#x27;s houses, but managed to wriggle out of the charges and quit the force to avoid anything further. [in the first case the prosecutors have never disclosed the misconduct; in the second they were very proactive in disclosure]