St. Louis homicide detective slams ‘Soros-backed prosecutor’s concerted effort to break the system’

A former homicide detective from St. Louis, Missouri, and 26-year veteran on the force, says a Soros-backed district attorney, Kimberly Gardner, put him on an infamous ‘do not list’. “, which prohibits agents from being involved in crucial parts of criminal proceedings.

Roger Murphy retired in 2021, around two years after he said he was put on an exclusion list, which made him feel like a sitting duck. As an excluded officer, Murphy would have to have other officers file his documents in Gardner’s office — such as arrest and search warrants, as well as grand jury subpoenas, he said. he declares.

Murphy said he left law enforcement for his own sanity. He added that he would not recommend young people to become officers. “It’s not worth it,” he said.

“I just sat there, I really couldn’t do anything. So I just said, I’m sitting here collecting dust and just collecting a paycheck and doing nothing. So what good am I here for the citizens? So I said, Well, I’m going to retire to turn in my papers,” Murphy told Fox News Digital.

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Roger Murphy speaks to Fox News Digital about Soros-backed district attorney Kimberly Gardner. (Fox News Digital | Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

“It was just frustrating. Nobody goes into law enforcement to get rich. I mean, you’re not going to. You go there because you have a calling,” he added.

It is unclear how many officers are on the list, estimates have reached 75, with some believing it to be much higher. Gardner declined to share the exact number. Officers are gagged from speaking out if placed on the list.

“You have received direct orders not to discuss it. So it’s a dismissable offense,” Murphy said.

Officers currently in the DA’s office are terrified of speaking out due to retaliation, Murphy said. In regards to 819 officers left the department around when Gardner took office in 2017, according to the St. Louis Police Pension Board. The department lost an average of 119 officers each year between 2017 and 2019. In 2020, 129 officers left the force, and another 174 in 2021.

Gardner’s office will even refuse to pursue cases presented by certain agents on the exclusion list if they were deemed essential witnesses and the case could not proceed without their testimony. Some officers who have been placed on the list are victims of fire, according to the KSDK. A local police union told the outlet it fears these excluded officers could see justice if they are barred from being key witnesses in criminal cases.

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The district attorney’s office said it places on the list — which was created in 2018 — officers who are considered for one reason or another to be untrustworthy and biased.

Kimberly Gardner is using the Soros-backed Vera Institute of Justice to disband the criminal justice system’s imprint in St. Louis over its alleged ‘racism’, a Fox News Digital investigation has revealed. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/Tribune News Service via Getty Images | AP Photo/Jim Salter)

“It was a political effort on his part, it had nothing to do with bias,” Murphy said. “If it was true, if it was biased, then take me to a judge, show the evidence that I’m biased – and she didn’t,” he said. “If I’m biased, why did you have to have a secret list, you know? Because I’m not biased. Why was the order given not to talk about it? No transparency.

Murphy continued, “I’ve been here 26 and a half years. Open all my suitcases. Bring it forward. Why don’t you reopen these files? And the simple answer is because she’s lying. And it was a political stunt because she wanted fewer police officers on the force, fewer arrests, and it drove down arrests.

A Fox News Digital investigation found that Gardner was implementing policies that would reduce the footprint of the criminal justice system in St. Louis in coordination with the Soros-linked Vera Institute of Justice. The private organization appeared to pay its own way to influence the district attorney’s office. A representative for Vera said no taxpayer money was used.

In order to partner with Vera and gain her support, DA offices must commit to reducing racial disparities by at least 20%.

According to Murphy, two social media posts on his personal Facebook caused him to be banned. One was critical of Gardner’s soft-on-crime approach. “It got to the point where if you criticized our prosecutor here in the city of St. Louis, she blackballed you.”

“She has very thin skin. He’s a very superficial person, in my opinion. And his whole thing was, we’re not going to incarcerate and put anybody in jail. Well, that’s not what police departments were created for. We are created to ensure the protection of citizens.

On Vera’s recommendation, the DA’s office applied a standard “beyond a reasonable doubt” – used by a jury to decide whether to convict – for the initial charges on cases instead of the standard use of prosecutors – probable cause. This effectively reduced the number of cases that entered the system.

An inmate throws a chair through shattered windows at the St. Louis Justice Center, known as the city jail, after fires were started at the facility on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS/ABACAPRESS.COM)

Murphy said: “So no matter what you did, you arrest somebody, and she wasn’t bringing charges…And it got to the point where everyone was shut down because they were like they were like , why am I doing this?”

And in many cases, Murphy said, Gardner’s office “wouldn’t even issue charges.” And he just stays there.

“Then the system broke down, completely broke down. The police did not dismantle it. Kim Gardner broke it,” he said.

Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has decided to fire Gardner and intends to show a judge that Gardner neglected his duties and therefore should be fired.

Murphy added that Gardner’s refusal to prosecute and indict the cases was part of an intent to destroy the system in place.

“You really can’t be this incompetent unless it’s a concerted effort to break the system,” Murphy said.

He said he found it bizarre that Gardner’s office was starting to ask for victims’ criminal histories, which he saw as a ruling used by attorneys defending criminals at trial.

“They got to the point where we had to start bringing in our victim’s criminal history. They placed more weight on the victim’s criminal history. I think to myself, ‘What does this have to do with the price of tea in China?’ This man is dead. Or at least the woman was assaulted. Yeah, okay, she had a criminal past, but… that has nothing to do with it. The fact is that this person is dead.

St. Louis Homicide Detective slams District Attorney Kim Gardner for failing to prosecute cases. (Getty | Fox News)

On the other hand, with career criminals, Murphy said, “We have to ignore the 15 prior felonies of this guy and the three prison sentences he served, and he was released early. And we’re only going to judge him on this little case.

In order to enter into a partnership with Vera, the DA offices must promise to disregard criminal history. The reason is that – according to Vera – the criminal justice system is racist.

“[T]he criminal justice system has been a tool for racial oppression and social control… of black people…. As some of the most powerful actors in the system, prosecutors have a responsibility to work to rectify this impact,” Vera said. “Prosecutors should…repair the wrongs done by the system…They should also radically change the policies, practices and organizational culture of their offices to address racial disparities and ensure respect for the inherent dignity of all.

Letting criminals out on the streets, Murphy said, encouraged minors to shoot police, feeling like minors they would face even fewer consequences. “It was always demoralizing for one for the officers. And the effect is that you just let go of a group of criminals who saw no consequences for the action.

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“The Vera Institute has no public safety requirement to protect citizens like prosecutors are supposed to. Who do you think she owes to Project Vera pushing this with all this money, she’s gonna do what they tell her to do,” Murphy said.

Fox News Digital contacted Gardner’s office but did not immediately receive a response.