The country has seen revelations about off-books police interrogation warehouses in the past.

A new lawsuit filed in federal court last month alleges that the Baton Rouge Police Department ran a “torture warehouse” where members of its Street Crimes Unit strip searched, beat, and otherwise humiliated people and then released them, often without their being charged with a crime. Soon after the lawsuit was filed, the FBI opened a civil rights investigation into the allegations of misconduct at the now-shuttered warehouse known as “the BRAVE Cave.”

  • queermunist she/her
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    1 year ago

    “When not working for BRPD and operating a torture warehouse, the two men co-run a consulting agency called Armor Consulting Group, which offers workshops and trainings around the country on ‘police reform,’ ” according to the lawsuit. “Is it any surprise that top BRPD brass has consistently exonerated members of Street Crimes Unit accused of wrongdoing?”

    This is basically regulatory capture.

    If reforms are going to do anything at all, the regulating agency can’t be run by people who work with the body they are regulating. It’s nonsense.