Our editor-in-chief Bankole Thompson, who is a twice-a-week opinion columnist at The Detroit News, secured the first Brady/Giglio list of police officers with credibility issues in Wayne County after the Office of the Wayne County Prosecutor complied with his request on Tuesday. The Detroit Police Department accounts for majority of the officers on the list who can no longer testify in any court of competent jurisdiction.
The list is important because the disclosure is being made at a time when there is an increasing demand for police accountability marked by the recent Black Lives Matter demonstrations.