『Changeling』（チェンジリング）

 Gustav Briegleb: On the radio and in the newspapers we are told that the Los Angeles Police Department is doing its very best to reunite mother and child, and I'm sure that that is true. But given its status as the most violent, corrupt and incompetent police department this side of the Rocky Mountains I am not sure it's saying a great deal. Every day, new bodies appear along Mulholland and in the ditches of our cities, the work of Police Chief James Davis and his aptly named Gun Squad. Every day, the needs of honest citizens are put second to greed and personal gain. Every day, this city sinks deeper into a cesspool of fear, intimidation and corruption. Once the City of Angels, Los Angeles has become a place where our protectors have become our brutalizers. Where to be the law is to be above the law.

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Gustav Briegleb: Mrs. Collins, I have made it my mission in life to bring to light all the things the LAPD wish none of us ever knew about. A department ruled by violence, abuse, murder, corruption and intimidation. When Chief Davis took over the force two years ago, he said...

James E. Davis: We will hold court against gunmen in the streets of Los Angeles. I want them brought in dead, not alive, and I will reprimand any officer who shows the least mercy to a criminal.

Gustav Briegleb: He picked 50 of the most violent cops on the force, gave them machine guns and permission to shoot anyone who got in their way. He called them the Gun Squad. No lawyers, no trials, no questions, no suspensions, no investigations. Just piles of bodies. Bodies in the morgues, bodies in the hospitals, bodies by the side of the road. And not because the LAPD wanted to wipe out crime. No. The LAPD wanted to wipe out the competition. Mayor Cryer and half the force are on the take. Gambling, prostitution, bootlegging, you name it. Because once you give people the freedom to do whatever they want, as the Lord found in the Garden of Eden, they will do exactly that. This police department does not tolerate dissent, or contradiction, or even embarrassment. And you are in a position to embarrass them and they do not like it. They will do anything in their power to discredit you. I've seen that happen too many times to start going blind now.

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Christine Collins: I am perfectly sane and I will explain that to them. Carol Dexter: How? The more you try to act sane, the crazier you start to look. If you smile too much, you're delusional or you're stifling hysteria. And if you don't smile, you're depressed. If you remain neutral, you're emotionally withdrawn, potentially catatonic.

Christine Collins: You've given this a lot of thought.
Carol Dexter: Yeah, I have. Don't you get it? You're a code 12, so am I. We're here for the exact same reasons. We both pissed off the cops.
 [...] If we are sane, nobody has to listen to us. I mean, who are you going to believe, some crazy woman trying to destroy the integrity of the force, or a police officer?



　　　2008年のアメリカ映画。クリント・イーストウッドがアンジェリーナ・ジョリーを主演に迎え、1920年代のロサンゼルスで実際に発生したゴードン・ノースコット事件の被害者家族の実話を元に映画化。

あらすじ：

1928年のロサンゼルス。シングルマザーで、電話会社に勤務するクリスティンの息子、ウォルターが姿を消す。クリスティンは警察に捜査を依頼し、その5ヵ月後、警察からウォルターを保護したと朗報が入った。喜ぶクリスティンだったが、再会した息子は全くの別人だった。警察にそのことを主張すると、彼女は「精神異常者」として精神病院に収容されてしまう。この事件の背後には当時のロサンゼルス市警察の恐るべき体質が隠されていた。

(Wikiより)

実際に起きた事件：

ウォルター・コリンズ（当時9歳）は1928年3月10日にロサンゼルスの自宅から行方不明になっており、全米の注目を集めていた。ロサンゼルス市警察は5ヵ月後にイリノイ州でウォルターを「発見」し、母親のクリスティンに引き渡した。しかし発見された少年は、成長期であるにもかかわらず身長が低くなっているなど、明らかにウォルターではなかった。そのため別人であるとクリスティンは歯の治療記録を根拠に主張していた。

しかしロサンゼルス市警察はクリスティンの訴えに取り合わないだけでなく、彼女を「警察が認定した事実を認めない異常者」として精神病院（ロサンゼルス郡立病院精神科閉鎖病棟）に強制入院させた。だが・・ウォルターが殺害されていたことが明らかになり、クリスティンは退院する。

・・この異常な展開により、警察の逆鱗に触れた者は異常者と決め付け精神病院送りにするという当時の市警察の腐敗体質が暴露された。

(Wiki:　ゴードン・ノースコット事件、Gordon Northcott)

＊なおクリスティンは、精神病のでっちあげを行なった悪徳警官と悪徳精神科医を訴え勝訴した