Your Independent Journal from the Heartland
Contrary to Mr. Patterson’s effusive and embarrassing praise of the disturbing proliferation of FBI dramas over recent decades, permit this 40-year criminal defense attorney to disabuse readers of such nonsense. The FBI resolutely remains the racist, sexist, Constitution-flaunting organization it was under Hoover; while its perverse manipulation of truth has been refined, its goal remains the same, to manipulate naive Americans with impunity to accept government intrusion as a way of life.
TV shows that bedazzled poor Rob offer a very false narrative that emboldens the FBI as it misleads yet also comforts uninformed viewers who, regrettably, become jurors that just cannot accept how corrupt law enforcement actually is (long before Kash Patel). Simple reminders, they habitually infiltrate advocacy groups to discredit citizen protest and create crime to justify police violence even more today than they did 100 years ago. Our laws permit officers to openly lie to suspects, but any suspect’s untruth is itself a crime.
Your source here has dealt with thousands of law officers and many thousand investigations. Sixty percent of FBI and other law enforcement officers are openly corrupt, almost all the rest are tacitly corrupt, and these percentages are commonly recognized by most colleagues, who include prosecutors, judges, and officers themselves; all that might differ (and that only moderately) is the percentages estimated.
We all know this is our system, and it is left to the non-professionals to acquire the informaton and power to change it — or not. When you venture into any area that you obviously have zero familiarity beyond television myth, consider ditching faith in fabrication and getting some facts on your side.
JOHN SAMORE, Albuquerque, N.M
