S.E. Williams
Some people collect macabre things. Examples of such collections include shrunken heads, fetal skeletons, taxidermied mutant farm animals, even the personal belongings of convicted serial killers. Meanwhile, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco has his own dark obsession.
Bianco collects civil rights lawsuits that accuse him of the maltreatment of those confined to the county’s jails, almost as if he wants to enshrine a written record of who suffered on his watch and the impact this suffering had on their lives as detailed in the civil rights suits brought against Bianco and by default, the County of Riverside…