10-01-16 Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department: inmate data survey - VINE vs Inmate Information Center re Jose Martinez, Jose Rodriguez

             
Images for Jose Rodriguez from Google image search - they are not jail inmates. However, they probably should be advised to stay out of Los Angeles County, California.

Initial interest in the case management system of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department arose following the jailing and hospitalization of two senior attorneys, who had filed complaints pertaining to allegations of corruption of judges of the Los Angeles Superior Court. One of them, Richard Fine, has been confined under coerced hospitalization for over 10 months. In parallel – Los Angeles Sheriff, Lee Baca, refused to allow access to California Public Records, which were the arrest and booking papers of the two attorneys. Instead, his office repeatedly referenced false and deliberately misleading data published on the online Inmate Information Center.

Previous data surveys demonstrated that about 30% of the entries in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Inmate information Center had no booking number available. It further showed that about 50% of the entries had fictitious court and/or case number listed as the legal authority for their jailing. Data surveys for common latino names such as “Jose Martinez”, “Jose Rodriguez”, versus common “anglo” names such as John Smith or John Williams, also suggested that latino named inmates were more likely to be missing a booking number or listed with other false data.

Here, such data were further analyzed by accessing the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department listing of inmates from two alternative sources: The VINE system, and the Inmate Information Center, and by comparing the results of the same queries from the two systems.

The differences were of surprisingly large magnitude: The native Inmate Information Center found 141 hits for a query for “Jose Martinez”, while the VINE system identified only 28 hits for the same query. Moreover, of the inmates that were found through VINE, 7% (2 out of 28) were not traceable in the Los Angeles County Inmate Information Center at all, although VINE listed the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department as the data source. Among inmates listed on VINE, some had Booking Numbers that were from the “low series” previously identified, which were non-continuous with other booking numbers in respect to Booking Dates, and therefore suspect.

The comparison was repeated by a query of both systems or “Jose Rodriguez”, yielding 133 hits in the native Inmate Information Center, but only 26 inmates in VINE for the same name.
Results of such analysis was claimed to demonstrate that upon investigation it was very likely to be found that large-scale false arrests and false jailing were prevalent in Los Angeles County, California. The evidence demonstrated that such practices were patronized by the courts. Additional evidence demonstrated widespread corruption of the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles – relative to real estate and financial institution fraud. FBI and the US Department of Justice refused to investigate allegations and overwhelming evidence of widespread corruption of the Los Angeles County justice system. It was therefore proposed that international observers should attempt to access public records in Los Angeles County, California, and further explore what appeared as large scale false jailing – direct extension of the Rampart scandal (1998-2000). Conditions of the justice system in Los Angeles County, California, may also require immediate approach to International Human Rights courts.

Dated January 16, 2010.
Truly,

Joseph Zernik
http://inproperinla.blogspot.com/
http://www.scribd.com/Free_the_Rampart_FIPs
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Linked Records:
1) The full report:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/25315610/10-01-16-Los-Angeles-County-Sheriff-s-Department-inmate-data-survey-VINE-vs-Inmate-Information-Center-re-Jose-Martinez-Jose-Rodriguez-s