By Errol Louis
It’s fitting tribute to the late Ken Thompson that the race to succeed
him as Brooklyn district attorney will largely be a referendum on who is
best suited to continue his innovative good works.
During his all-too-brief tenure, Thompson created the nation’s largest
conviction review unit, devoting 10 investigators and millions of
dollars and securing 21 exonerations. He also devoted time to Begin
Again, a community-based effort to help low-level offenders clear their
records of stale warrants and summonses.
And, importantly, he did not shy away from prosecuting cops if
necessary, notably in the case of Officer Peter Liang, convicted of
criminally negligent homicide for killing Akai Gurley in a public
housing stairwell.
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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
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