Prosecuting the Police  The State Attorney's Office takes heat
no matter what the outcome  And at what point does bravado give
way to paranoia generated by the conviction that there are two
types of people in the world: cops and everyone else? For those
individuals the goal is no longer the betterment of society but
rather personal survival. How many officers have come to believe
that politicians, journalists, and the public are just waiting
to turn on them if they make a mistake? How many of them factor
that into how they perform their jobs?  Aguero doesn't exist in
a vacuum. In the case of the Coconut Grove shooting, more than a
dozen officers formed a human shield to block onlookers' view as
Aguero allegedly planted the throw-down weapon. I would have
liked to discuss all this with Aguero himself, but his attorney
refused my request for an interview with the suspended officer.
Which brings me to Miami-Dade Det. Laura Russell. Last week the
Miami Herald ran a story about Russell, a robbery detective who
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