HARRY SIEGEL: What Cops Don’t Want To See.

I don’t know if Comey’s hunch is right. Neither does he.

I do know that if Obama is serious about restoring trust in American justice, not just rallying 2016 Democratic voters, it’s not enough for him, Comey and Co. to admit their ignorance. They need to finally get the feds’ eyes open in the 13 months they’ve got left.

Of course, reformers have their own blind spots. I’m writing the day of NYPD Officer Randolph Holder’s funeral. He was shot dead by Tyrone Howard, a man with an arm-long rap sheet and a history of gun violence who was in a drug diversion program since he was, on paper, a non-violent offender.

If Holder had killed Howard instead, it’s not hard to envision the righteous reports about the father of two who’d been caught up in the system, the marchers chanting for the cop who killed him to face justice.

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