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The decision "essentially immunizes police judgment from review without giving the courts any standard to go on," Mr. Lustberg said in an interview.
All over the Internet, from reader comments on The Lede to the far misty corners of conspiracy-theory land, hardly anyone seems inclined to accept the initial police judgment that Ms. Palfrey simply committed suicide.
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Courts and jurors defer to police judgments, even if those judgments are inflected by racial stereotypes that inevitably render an unarmed black man more dangerous than an armed policeman.
Although the report said that the police "lacked judgment" in stopping Ms Dibrani during a school trip, it noted that the teenager's mother and five other children had prepared their bags that morning for the flight out; that the authorities were trying to keep the family together for the trip; and that Ms Dibrani had been handed over to the police calmly, out of sight of her classmates.
That brief but critical time frame is at the heart of a shooting of one officer by another that has resurrected issues in New York City of police training, judgment and communication in potentially deadly situations, and whether the officers' race played a part in the shooting.
It seems we have entered the age of "thought crime", when the police make judgments on whose views are extreme or radical.
Two-thirds of white respondents believed police use good judgment in the stops; an equal share of black respondents said they did not.
Josh Moos, one of the protesters who brought the judicial review case against the police, said: "This judgment won't make people forget the footage of the police baton-charging the climate camp or what happened to Ian Tomlinson that day.
The plea was no comfort to Teresa Ruffin, who believes the police rushed to judgment in the case, in part due to Moore's history of run-ins with the law.
That violence is actively supported by the police, despite court judgments in favour of the new leadership.
But the old homme de lettres would have challenged us that in a truly free society, we must police our own judgments as fiercely as we police our borders.
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