Investigation Standards
1. Initiation & Jurisdiction
- Initial jurisdiction should be federal, ensuring standardization nationwide.
- Federal oversight guarantees consistency in investigations and enforcement.
2. Key Areas of Oversight
- In-Custody Deaths
- Causes: suicide, officer self-defense, inmate violence.
- Prevention: population control can significantly reduce suicides and inmate-on-inmate violence.
- Employee safety: also improved through proper population management.
- Serious Use of Force
- Sometimes necessary, often triggered by inmate behavior—but not always.
- Requires close auditing and transparent reporting.
- Public Corruption
- Root cause for federal control and guidelines.
- Remove subjective judgment from individuals vulnerable to influence (public opinion, threats, monetary gain).
- Solutions:
- Categorize crimes to the smallest detail.
- Mandatory sentencing based on federal standards.
- Eliminate “charge stacking.”
- Judges should apply guidelines, not personal discretion.
- Current lack of standards leads to extreme inconsistencies:
- Example: A 21-year-old received 40 years at age 14 for school stabbing (victim recovered in 3 days).
- Another offender with a violent history received 15 years for repeated stabbing causing permanent injury.
- Civil Rights Complaints
- Ongoing but must be investigated seriously and unemotionally by a disinterested party.
3. Uniform SOPs
- Evidence handling.
- Witness protocols.
- Incident reporting aligned with:
- DOJ Civil Rights Enforcement
- PREA (Prison Rape Elimination Act) standards
4. Auditing & Analysis
- Quarterly analysis of:
- Stops
- Searches
- Arrests
- Charging decisions
- Intermittent, unannounced inspections for accountability.
5. Federal Investigation of All Convictions
- Every arrest leading to conviction and incarceration must be reviewed by federal investigators outside the local jurisdiction.
- Review includes:
- Reason for stop/arrest.
- All evidence.
- All witness testimony for bias.