The hardest part, though, may be renewing confidence in the criminal justice system.
"If the police are no different from the thugs, who are we supposed to depend on when we need help?" Mills said.
That's a good question. Granted, it's not all police. But that's similar to how all politicians fight the corruption meme because of the actions of a few. How do you restore the public trust when innocent people have been framed and served time for nothing more than being in the wrong place, at the wrong time to be busted by the wrong people.
This is a pretty disturbing story done by the NBC Philadelphia local affiliate's investigative unit. They now have 4 officers that have been suspended without pay while the FBI looks into their actions and convicted criminals are being let out of jail without an explanation. When asked why the Camden County Prosecutors office would vacate the sentence of an inmate without explanation, they said:
We are under no legal obligation to inform the public as to why
Then they followed up with this:
Our best choice is to say nothing
Well that doesn't make it sound like what is going on is very good. The story says that the FBI investigation into Camden police corruption has now expanded and the allegations sound pretty serious. In addition, their sources say that cases for dozens of people that have been arrested by the suspended police officers have been dismissed or overturned. Here's the story:
