Letters: Better LAPD photo lineups
Re “LAPD reluctant to change its handling of photo lineups,” Aug. 25
The article left me shaking. It was like my story, played out after the fatal shooting of my husband, Jerry Weber, as I sat next to him at a drive-through ATM 23 years ago.
I will never forget the face behind the gun. No one can imagine the pressure you feel as a witness when detectives are telling you, “Trust me, the suspect is in one of these photos,” and keep moving a picture of someone you’ve never seen back in front of you. No one can imagine the lingering anger and sense of failure to know that, having been manipulated into saying, “Well, maybe there are some similarities,” you would end up as a discredited witness to your loved one’s murder.
Is it time to change this practice? I think so.
Sally Weber
Encino
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