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Civil penalties are a good call here - you cannot trust prosecutorial discretion in this case, as prosecutors who go after cops for lying on the stand find thei
by ThrustVectoring 9y ago
Civil penalties are a good call here - you cannot trust prosecutorial discretion in this case, as prosecutors who go after cops for lying on the stand find their jobs very difficult afterwards.
- caf 9y agoYou could use a separate prosecutor for these cases, maybe even appoint a defence attorney as a special prosecutor.
- berbec 9y agoIsn't this the exact point of Internal Affairs departments?
- ThrustVectoring 9y agoThe point of the internal affairs department is often to appease voters by looking like they're doing something about police corruption. They're incentivized to go after high-profile career making cases, not the run-of-the-mill "cop says one thing and the videotape says another". Making it easy and profitable to take clear-cut cases like this to civil court adds incentives to go after these sorts of things.
- caf 9y agoAs I understand it, Internal Affairs departments tend to be investigatory rather than prosecutorial authorities.