Our justice system is just not well-designed to hold police to account. There's no neutral, separate prosecutor to bring charges against the police. Instead, i

Our justice system is just not well-designed to hold police to account. There's no neutral, separate prosecutor to bring charges against the police. Instead, it's on District Attorneys and regular prosecutors--the same offices that bring charges against citizens and work with police witnesses every day of the year. Incentives are misaligned. Prosecutors, for the most part, are strikingly reluctant to pursue legal action against fellow law enforcement. They are nearly coworkers, in the sense that they see each other often and rely on each other to accomplish their day to day jobs. Local police are rarely prosecuted and even more rarely convicted even in serious cases, like officer-involved shootings: https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/18/us/police-involved-shooting-cases/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/18/us/police-involved-shooting-c... The chance that federal police will see consequences for breaking copyright law looks slim.