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    Investigative Journalism

    This 15-minute video is a shorter compilation of the hours of investigation 11Alive has produced on the Roswell Police Department. A year-long investigation by a one-man-band investigative reporter revealed institutional and systemic failures inside a large Metro Atlanta police department. By cultivating internal police sources, Brendan Keefewas able to demand specific, hidden public records that uncovered the following scandals the Roswell Police Department tried to keep secret from the public:

    • Officers arrested a driver for speeding using a ‘coin flip’ app
    • Police covered up a K9 brutally mauling a teen suspect who had already surrendered
    • Top sergeant intentionally froze a 13 year old boy to get him to tell the truth
    • Department concealed the release of a suspected drunk driver - one of its own officers
    • Officer failed to help a dying prisoner because that officer was already under investigation

    There’s a common thread linking all of these incidents: police commanders quietly counseled violators within their own department until they realized that our reporter was about to inform the public. Then, and only then, did the command staff launch internal investigations, and fire or demote the offending officers. The police department engaged in elaborate cover-ups.

    You are wrong about police.

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    Real journalism has always been an effective check on the powers that be and corruption.

    That's why it's troubling when the profession is attacked and demonized.

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    They've done it to themselves. CNN is the poster child of journalistic corruption. They are the demons. No sympathy. They are scum.
    Last edited by Lummy; 11-01-2019 at 06:57 AM.

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