It occurs to me, this and other stories put into sharp relief how much of a need there is for People’s Investigation teams. I don’t mean citizen journalists either, even if they do help in their own way. I mean the kind of roles you’d have in LE, like forensics, looking into gangster state cases as they happen, before the details have gone cold. Militant as well, so they can’t be targeted as easily themselves. Groups who can show up and do the kind of investigation that the cops are unwilling to do, either because it’s convenient for the cops to let the crime slide or because they were involved. Otherwise, these stories linger as gangster state tales rather than unmasking what happened and forcing the state and its actors out into the open.