Arbery murder trial shines spotlight on troubled Glynn County law enforcement: Georgia Today [podcast and transcript]

We gathered documents from both Brunswick police and Glynn County police and in order to have a baseline, we also were collecting records from police in Savannah and Chatham County… What we found out was that, one: there actually is no law across the state of Georgia that mandates police departments anywhere to keep certain data or not… Glynn County has only retained three years of police — policing data, traffic stops, 911 calls.

Justice William O. Douglass: trees have standing

  For over a decade, now, I have always, always had a digital voice recorder. I have also always required constant pencil and paper – something I’m never without. The bulk of the space on my Dig Voice Recorders – running on 3A batteries which rocks more than you can know unless you know, is bullshit like this. Verbal journaling…