Sacramento County District Attorney saves money by ceasing investigations of police shootings
Allegedly "wrestling with budget cuts," DA Jan Scully has ceased monitoring police shootings to determine whether the officers’ kills were
justified and whether the investigations into them were conducted
thoroughly, or at all.
Not that it really matters. After all, in the past 10 years, the Sacramento County DA’s office has investigated
93 officer-involved shootings and in-custody deaths, and not one has resulted
in a criminal prosecution, even though many of those killed were unarmed.
Policy director for the Northern
California ACLU, Allen Hopper, says he is "not aware of other DA’s offices dropping
their officer-involved shooting units."
