After the murder of a Chicago police officer working a second job as a security guard, four local men were arrested and painted as being responsible. Only, in this anger-inducing story, it doesn’t appear to be the case at all.
“We tend to think that a great injustice requires some grand plan or some comic book villain,” says Guardian investigative reporter Melissa Segura. “But what happens when that's not the story at all? When instead, every single part of the criminal legal system, police officers, their supervisors, forensics, prosecutors, did not do its job. When people with power refuse to admit that they could be wrong, and double down, again and again.”
