DeAngelo Martin
DeAngelo Martin
They say “hindsight is always twenty-twenty," which means things are always clearer after something happens. In this case, the hindsight shows just how deadly police missteps can be.
An Associated Press investigation by reporters Ed White, Del Quentin Wilber and Maddy Peek states:
A year after DeAngelo Martin was sent to prison for committing four murders and two rapes, it’s clear that police were hardly diligent or relentless.
Over 15 years, Detroit police failed to follow up on leads or take investigative steps that may have averted the eventual killing spree, despite having received repeated warnings that Martin was a violent predator, an Associated Press investigation has found.
“It’s astonishing,” said Jim Trainum, a retired Washington, D.C., homicide detective who specializes in reviewing police investigations for possible wrongful convictions. “All the police had to do was one little thing, one little thing here or there, and they would have put a stop to this whole process and these women would still be alive. Just one thing.”
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