01-08-2013, 02:25 PM
I go into that in the book. That is, Vince's penchant for rhetorical bombast.
In regards to the Simpson case, I note a truly idiotic comment he made in an interview about that case. He said words to the effect that police don't actually alter evidence in LA against black suspects!
Now, how could he know that unless he examined scores of cases?
But, get this, two weeks before VB said that, the Rampart Division scandal started to break. THis got little play outside of LA, but it was the biggest police scandal in the history of the city. ANd it concerned the altering of evidence, some if it racially motivated. And the guy VB was trying to protect, Mark Fuhrman, his name surfaced in it. The whole thing was so bad that the feds had to come in and manage it. To this day, people think it was covered up because Fuhrman's name got mentioned.
Anyway, that is VB's track record. He also defended the DPD right before the whole Innocence Project and Watkins began to expose their whole horrendous record. And he used Harry Connick while the Supreme Court was reaching out from the bench to criticize his office in New Orleans.
In order to score cheap rhetorical points, Vince really does step in it a lot. That's something I go after him for in the book.
In regards to the Simpson case, I note a truly idiotic comment he made in an interview about that case. He said words to the effect that police don't actually alter evidence in LA against black suspects!
Now, how could he know that unless he examined scores of cases?
But, get this, two weeks before VB said that, the Rampart Division scandal started to break. THis got little play outside of LA, but it was the biggest police scandal in the history of the city. ANd it concerned the altering of evidence, some if it racially motivated. And the guy VB was trying to protect, Mark Fuhrman, his name surfaced in it. The whole thing was so bad that the feds had to come in and manage it. To this day, people think it was covered up because Fuhrman's name got mentioned.
Anyway, that is VB's track record. He also defended the DPD right before the whole Innocence Project and Watkins began to expose their whole horrendous record. And he used Harry Connick while the Supreme Court was reaching out from the bench to criticize his office in New Orleans.
In order to score cheap rhetorical points, Vince really does step in it a lot. That's something I go after him for in the book.