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| St. Louis homicide detective blows whistle on Soros-backed DA's 'concerted effort to break down the system' |
| 2023-03-13 |
| [FoxNews] Roger Murphy warned young people not to go into law enforcement, saying 'it's not worth it'. Retired St. Louis homicide detective Roger Murphy speaks out on the criminal chaos in St. Louis Under District Attorney Kimberly Gardner. A former St. Louis homicide detective and 26-year veteran on the force, said a George Soros-backed district attorney, Kimberly Gardner, placed him on an infamous "exclusion list," which bars officers from being involved in crucial portions of criminal justice proceedings. Roger Murphy retired in 2021, approximately two years after he said he was put on an exclusion list which made him feel like a sitting duck. As an excluded officer, Murphy would have to ask other officers to file his paperwork to Gardner's office – such as arrest and search warrants, as well as grand jury subpoenas, he said. Murphy said he left law enforcement for his own sanity. He added that he would not recommend young people become officers. "It's not worth it," he said. "I just basically sat there, couldn't really do anything. So I just said, I'm sitting here collecting dust and just collecting a paycheck and not doing anything. So what good am I here for the citizens? So I said, 'Well, I'm going to retire to turn my papers in,'" Murphy told Fox News Digital. It is unknown how many officers are on the list, but estimates have run as high as 75, with some believing it is much higher. Gardner has refused to share the exact number. Officers are gagged from speaking out if they are placed on the list. "You're given a direct order not to discuss this. So that's a fireable offense," Murphy said. Officers who are currently at the DA office are terrified to speak out due to retaliation, Murphy said. About 819 officers have left the department around when Gardner took office in 2017, according to the St. Louis Police Pension Board. The department lost an average of 119 officers each year between 2017 and 2019. In 2020, 129 officers left the force, with an additional 174 leaving in 2021. Gardner's office will even decline to prosecute cases brought forward by some officers on the exclusion list if they were considered essential witnesses and the case could not move forward without their testimony. Some officers who have been placed on the list are victims of shootings, according to KSDK. A local police union told the outlet that it was concerned whether those excluded officers would be able to see justice if they are prohibited from being essential witnesses in criminal cases. The district attorneys' office has said it places officers on the list – which was created in 2018 – that are believed for one reason or another to be untrustworthy and biased. A Fox News Digital investigation found that Gardner was implementing policies that would shrink the criminal justice system's footprint in St. Louis in coordination with the Soros-linked Vera Institute of Justice. The private organization appeared to pay its own way to influence the district attorney's office. A Vera representative said that no taxpayer dollars were used. In order to enter into a partnership with Vera and get its support, DA offices must commit to reducing racial disparities by at least 20%. According to Murphy, two social media posts on his personal Facebook caused his exclusion. One was critical of Gardner's soft-on-crime approach. "It got to the point where if you criticized our prosecutor here in the city of Saint Louis, she blackballed you." Upon recommendation from Vera, the DA office applied a "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard – used by a jury to decide whether to convict – for initial charges on cases instead of the standard prosecutors use – probable cause. This effectively shrunk the amount of cases that entered the system. Murphy said, "So no matter what you did, you arrest somebody, and she wasn't issuing charges… And it got to the point where everybody was shut down because they were like, why am I doing this?" "Then the system broke down, completely broke down. The police didn't break it down. Kim Gardner broke it down," he said. Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has moved to fire Gardner and intends to show a judge that Gardner neglected her duties and therefore needed to be removed. Murphy added that Gardner's refusal to prosecute and charge cases was part of an intent to destroy the system in place. "You really cannot be that incompetent unless it was a concerted effort to break the system down," Murphy said. He said he found it bizarre when Gardner's office began requesting the criminal histories of the victims, which he considered to be a move used by attorneys defending criminals at trial. "They actually got to the point where we had to start bringing in the criminal histories of our victim. They gave more weight to the victim's criminal history. I'm like, ‘What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?’ This man is dead. Or at least the woman has been assaulted. Yes, okay, she's had a criminal past, but... that has nothing to do with it. The fact is that this person is dead." On the other hand, with career criminals, Murphy said, "We got to disregard this guy's 15 prior felonies, and three prison sentences that he's done, and he's been released early. And we're only going to judge him on this one little case." In order to enter into a partnership with Vera, DA offices must promise not to consider criminal histories. The reason is that – according to Vera – the criminal justice system is racist. "[T]he criminal legal system has been a tool of racial oppression and social control… of Black people…. As some of the most powerful actors in the system, prosecutors have a responsibility to work to rectify that impact," Vera said. "Prosecutors should… repair harms caused by the system... They should also dramatically shift the policies, practices, and organizational culture of their offices to address racial disparities and ensure respect for the inherent dignity of all people." Letting criminals out on the street, Murphy said, encouraged juveniles to shoot at police, feeling like as minors they would face even less consequences. "It was always demoralizing for one for the officers. And the effect is you just let a bunch of criminals go that saw no consequences for action." "The Vera Institute doesn't have any requirement for public safety to protect the citizens like the prosecutors supposed to. Who do you think she's beholden to the Vera project that is pushing this with all this money she's going to do what they tell her to do," Murphy said. Fox News Digital reached out to Gardner's office but did not immediately receive a response. Related: Kimberly Gardner: 2022-04-10 Missouri Supreme Court sides with John Solomon in Sunshine Law case against St. Louis prosecutor Kimberly Gardner: 2021-01-25 Justice System in California in Chaos as Prosecutors Rebel Against Soros-Created DA Kimberly Gardner: 2020-07-13 Defeat the radical St. Louis prosecutor, support Mary Pat Carl. Related: Vera Institute of Justice: 2023-01-03 Biden's border crisis: Our immigration courts have a 2,023,441 case backlog and it's more than we can handle Vera Institute of Justice: 2022-07-18 Soros Group Wins $172 Million Contract From Biden Vera Institute of Justice: 2022-01-15 Left-wing group secured $158 million taxpayer-funded contract to help illegal immigrants avoid deportation |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #9 She would not be jailed for not doing her job or based on the evidence that has been presented. Politicians, even Dems go to jail occasionally. The priority is to get her out and replaced with a competent person before the police force is no longer a viable alternative to felony. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-03-13 15:27 |
| #8 #6 I would like to believe as you do TW. Well begun is half done, and getting Gardner sacked would be that. Prosecution? Never gonna happen with this or any other DoJ. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2023-03-13 13:36 |
| #7 #3 Whistleblower implies that this is something out of the blue - new reporting. Let's connect the hundreds of dots and start making the accusations and finally - FINALLY put the damn Marxists on the defensive. Knock them back on their heals and not let up even with the cries of "uncle!"... don't ever let up until the Marxist ideology is comatose at which point we can debate whether to pull the plug. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2023-03-13 13:32 |
| #6 This isn’t whistleblowing as such, but lining up actionable evidence that Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey can use to get Ms Gardner out of office... and possibly into jail herself. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-03-13 11:55 |
| #5 Soros is a dangerous guy to countries. His ideologies leaves them in ruin. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2023-03-13 11:52 |
| #4 St. Louis was once a beautiful and vibrant city. But decades of ever worse politicians have destroyed it. If you visit, you can still see a very beautiful and pleasant city, though badly neglected and decayed--and now dangerous. |
| Posted by: Tom 2023-03-13 11:46 |
| #3 How would you like it reported, Rex? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-03-13 11:43 |
| #2 This is not a whistleblower moment. We know full well what Soros is up to. To report it this way is to be part of why we lose. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2023-03-13 11:27 |
| #1 Soros and the Vera Institute have no interest in benefiting the people of St Louis. Once a Soros DA is in place, he or she becomes a squatter in office, not answerable to the public, working on an agenda to break the system. Not only do the DA policies neuter law enforcement, they result is a crazy amount of retirements that send the city into a violent death spiral. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-03-13 09:20 |