Your grand jury experience sounds similar to the grand jury 'investigation' that the state attorney general choreographed for the cops that shot Breonna Taylor. Just a charade to create the appearance of doing something. It's funny you mention an escape, the night of my last drink of alcohol (12/12/2010) I managed to escape from the jail here. That'll make you popular with the cops, or at least make sure they know who you are. Pretty sure they papered over that in similar fashion, were embarrassed and didn't want people asking questions about how I'd managed to pull that off.
Don't worry, I don't have much in the way of expectations in terms of what the consent decree will actually accomplish, it's still cops watching cops and we already know how good they are at that. One of the things that the protests here in 2020 drove home was that 'we take care of us.' The community organizing and mutual aid stuff that grew out of that is still going strong, I am a bit hopeful that having LMPD on a shorter leash will give that more room to grow and flourish. We shall see.
Thanks for dropping by!