OC booking scandal merits further scrutiny

Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes and District Attorney Todd Spitzer are busy pointing fingers at each other over a new scandal involving evidence-booking policies, but it’s increasingly clear that an outside agency needs to take a close look at systemic problems in the county’s law-enforcement system. People’s constitutional rights are at risk.
Barnes and Spitzer are new to their posts since the county’s “snitch” scandal, whereby the DA and sheriff’s off