John Sherman Cooper Quotes
The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like.
United States, Congress, House, Select Committee on Assassinations. Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-Fifth Congress, Second Session. Vol. 3, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979.
New York City police are generally better than most in training. However, by far most murder investigations have at least one police and district attorney error and often many more. The rules, procedures, and protocols are quite complex, and police are often not adequately trained. Most departments are understaffed and the caseload is much too heavy. There is huge political and public pressure on murder cases so police often make mistakes to respond rapidly for the demand for information. The way the laws are written in almost all states, the police officers are not legally responsible when they do make errors even if it results in an innocent person going to jail and the real criminal still being at large. Generally, except in a few cases, the courts will not throw a case out just because police or district attorneys do not follow required procedures, and in some departments there is a good guy vs. bad guy mentality and there is a norm of just getting the bad guys off the streets and not worrying about all the details of investigating alternative possibilities and this results sometimes in illegally hiding these from the defense. Evaluations of this kind are rarely performed, in that most departments see no advantage to uncovering and publicizing the mistakes of the past. This study is also used by many who oppose the death penalty to illustrate the large error possibility with capital cases where execution precludes uncovering the errors and mistakes.
John Sherman Cooper was an American politician, jurist, and diplomat from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He served three non-consecutive, partial terms in the United States Senate before being elected to two full terms in 1960 and 1966. He also served as U.S. Ambassador to India from 1955 to 1956 and U.S. Ambassador to East Germany from 1974 to 1976. He was the first Republican to be popularly elected to more than one term as a senator from Kentucky and, in both 1960 and 1966, he set records for the largest victory margin for a Kentucky senatorial candidate from either party.
