Who would suspect that Concord would be more progressive than Durham on the subject of compensating victims of police corruption?. Yet last week, Concord made good on a $25 million judgment for Ronnie Long, a man who spent 40 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit-and the city also wrote a sincere note of apology. But in Durham, Darryl Howard is still waiting for a $6 million judgment that a jury awarded him in 2021. Mr. Howard is an innocent man who spent 24 years in prison for a rape and murder that he didn’t commit. DNA evidence proved he didn’t do it. The case was weak all along. At trial, one of the prosecution’s coerced witnesses declared: “You can’t force me to come and tell something I didn’t see!”