Institutional cover-up delays justice until perpetrators are beyond legal reach

Evidence

If the reality management system is allowed to do its work unobstructed, we can expect the truth to dribble out in twenty or thirty years’ time, as it did with Hillsborough, or, more recently, with the Miners’ Strike. By then, the man who pulled the trigger and those who aided and abetted in the cover-up will be either pensioned off or dead. Either way, they will be beyond the reach of any justice. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1755

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on this book’s recurring ‘reality management’ concept (chs 89, 98-99) as a structural feature rather than episodic scandal. — connects to: Justice systems can perpetuate faked-evidence verdicts through institutional willful blindness; Army hierarchy institutionalized cover-up of torture and abuses; Slow legal process lets contested practices settle into ordinary acceptance — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 440 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Army hierarchy institutionalized cover-up of torture and abuses #exemplifies (0.90)
• Justice systems can perpetuate faked-evidence verdicts through institutional willful blindness #corroborates (0.85)
• Slow legal process lets contested practices settle into ordinary acceptance #expands (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 440
• Organizational complexity can displace criminal responsibility away from individual actors. #expands (0.78) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1574
• Prosecutorial secrecy blocks both research and accountability for discretion #corroborates (0.72) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 552