Project Goals & Objectives
Project Goals & Objectives
The activity of the Truth in Justice Project is focused on collecting and systematically presenting any injustices perpetrated against the contributing subscribers on Wikifactum’s site by officials of the justice system and its effects on the individuals, their families who also suffered and society as a whole. The objective therefore is to follow and challenge the fundamental and vital aspects of injustice perpetrated by officialdom.
These issues have been the subject of numerous professional academic studies over the years, which confirm the devastating effect on the nation’s poor.
Changes in US criminal law were purportedly made by Congress in 1985, but the changes allegedly only made things worse during the 1990s. What little has been done since 2008 has not begun to undo the harm that has caused the justice system to become so disreputable. Trials are rare in the federal criminal justice system, and acquittals are now even rarer.
When one considers that the US federal judicial system boasts a conviction rate of over 98% with only 2% of cases going to trial, how is this remarkable rate possible only in the United States and not in any other judicial system except for China’s? We can only wonder how this rate was achieved and if it was done fairly. Was it achieved through excellent investigative skills, skilled prosecutors and the inducement of a reduced sentence by pleading guilty to a bargained indictment, or were other nefarious schemes at play because the defendant exercised his or her constitutional right to a fair trial
While academia may have studied this, what could they have done to redress any unfairness or miscarriage of justice they have discovered in the system? After all, that is the job of the American voters; are they not to be blamed? While the American Civil Liberties Union, the Innocence Project and the Marshall Project have shown what moral leadership is about, there is little condemnation of prosecutors and other officials with documented bad records. From the very outset of an indictment, “The Man” still gets away with exploiting and smearing his latest quarry with dubious propaganda when prosecutors entice the media’s “investigative reporters” to publish false or misleading statements to an unwitting public and possibly a judge or jury. Truth must be disseminated to the media by the establishment of what can only be considered reliable content – not hype, falsehoods, conjecture or supposition.
The unlawful killing on May 25, 2020 of George Perry Floyd Jr. by an officer of the Minneapolis Police Department was an immediate catalyst for the Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization, with its nationwide protests demanding social change and protesting rampant police killings, brutality, racism and planted evidence. There have been many more such occurrences since Floyd was brutalized. Some police officers are now far more mindful that their conduct is under frequent scrutiny from smartphones and body cameras. Similarly, a problem exists in the federal court system but, unlike with uniformed police officers, little is known about the conduct of investigators or officers of the court. Likewise, there is no such medium as BLM exerting pressure for change among officers of the courts, and this is precisely why it is far past time for a watchdog, an investigative justice ombudsperson, to saddle up to protect the innocents, those individuals Shanghaied into a jail sentence by nefarious means. Nothing will change until methods such as those projected for Wikifactum’s Truth in Justice Project are used to bring dishonest federal investigators, prosecutors, colluding defense attorneys and others to account. Until then, injustices in the criminal justice system will continue.
Individuals vetted by Wikifactum’s staff will be granted a password-controlled information vault on the cloud into which they will insert their narrative. Following ombudsperson and staff review and approval, the individual’s site will be opened for interested parties to read.
Wikifactum is recruiting victims of injustice caused by “The Man” and his facilitators as users of the site to pursue social justice through its online forum. With a covenant of good faith, users will contribute to the site and benefit others with their contributions by exposing injustices in the criminal justice system. Our forum will provide an in-depth look at the careers, history and ethics of federal investigators, prosecutors, defense attorneys and judges. Wikifactum will appoint an ombudsperson for each of the 11 federal court circuits who will oversee and examine claims for their truth and corroboration. They will have the assistance of Wikifactum’s administrators and our site users. Together, our research and exposure of misconduct and systemic problems will create much-needed accountability. All discoveries of unethical or illegal conduct will also be published by DOING TIME NEWS SERVICES, INC., in our DOING TIME national newspaper and other online forums.
It is overwhelmingly evident that the poor are the victims of an overzealous judicial system with career-motivated law enforcement agents, prosecutors and money-making correctional institutions acting in tandem to incarcerate as many people as possible. In doing so, the very fabric of society is being destroyed as families are broken up and communities are harmed with each arrest. Many have said that the United States needs to heal, not fill vacant bunks in federal prisons. Clearly, the American criminal justice system is an anthill of hypocrisy and corruption. Even America’s claim to be a democratic society of laws has become questionable to many.
Wikifactum’s review of cases will be carried out as accurately as possible, with a clear separation between fact and conjecture. The project aims to be an encyclopaedia of truth and an open creative laboratory to illuminate the truth for the public and victims of injustice. It is our hope, albeit with great zeal but a limited degree of positivity of success, that scrutiny led by Wikifactum and published by DOING TIME NEWS SERVICES, INC., will eventually lead to fairer trials and sentencing. A tall order and we can but try.
