Trust and Cooperation

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Trust and Cooperation

The true crime world is in a tizzy with the retrial of Karen Reid. Her first trial ended in a hung jury. She is accused of deliberately running over her boyfriend and leaving him in the snow, unconscious, to freeze to death. Ms. Reid has passionate supporters among her neighbors, mostly, it seems, due to their antipathy towards the local cops. The community doesn’t trust them.

See, her boyfriend, the one who died, was a Boston cop. He died on the lawn of his friend’s house, also cops, whose party he was going to. Karen Reid says she dropped him off and saw him go into the house. After finding him on the front lawn of his friend’s house, the homicide detectives never interviewed his police officer friends. They didn’t search their house, either. At about 2:30 a.m., one of the wives of policemen in that house searched google for “how long does it take for someone to freeze t…