It makes sense that the DC Police would be very corrupt -- as they are employed to protect, shield and facilitate the private vices of the above-the-law powerful who are assembled in DC. Newsham is of course an appalling figure, a Scarpia, who has slipped into his position with out much scrutiny by taking the position of interim first. Interims are not deeply investigated (or protested . . . he's only the interim) and the switch from interim to permanent is done without fanfare. Washington and Barnhill seem pretty low-level, not directly involved in organized trafficking at all, but may have known enough to embolden themselves, and therefore Washington was probably offed. (No word about the ankle bracelet. Why didn't it go off?). Barnhill got seven years -- . There was some sort of investigative panel regarding the DC force after this. Wonder where that went. Would be nice if a DC based journalist on top of all this would put it together for us. Or has that been done somewhere?
view the rest of the comments →
Astrodreamer ago
It makes sense that the DC Police would be very corrupt -- as they are employed to protect, shield and facilitate the private vices of the above-the-law powerful who are assembled in DC. Newsham is of course an appalling figure, a Scarpia, who has slipped into his position with out much scrutiny by taking the position of interim first. Interims are not deeply investigated (or protested . . . he's only the interim) and the switch from interim to permanent is done without fanfare. Washington and Barnhill seem pretty low-level, not directly involved in organized trafficking at all, but may have known enough to embolden themselves, and therefore Washington was probably offed. (No word about the ankle bracelet. Why didn't it go off?). Barnhill got seven years -- . There was some sort of investigative panel regarding the DC force after this. Wonder where that went. Would be nice if a DC based journalist on top of all this would put it together for us. Or has that been done somewhere?