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Prosecutors rely heavily on police testimony during trials and their conviction ratio is highly important for their careers especially for elected ones, so it c
by dogma1138 6y ago
Prosecutors rely heavily on police testimony during trials and their conviction ratio is highly important for their careers especially for elected ones, so it can easily create a conflict of interest.
They go after the police and somehow police officers stop attending trials or claim they don’t remember during their testimony.
There needs to be either a completely separated body from the state/district attorneys or it needs to be federal.
- BurningFrog 6y agoI was thinking a specialized police prosecution unit, on the state level. The career prosecutors there would make their careers by convicting cops.
- dogma1138 6y agoThat’s what internal affairs does, it still isn’t enough usually because it pretty much means you are stuck there once you join since your other career prospects disappear.
- DlSGUSTING 6y agoI think there's more risk of corruption or favouritism with IA than if it was a federal body completely disconnected from the department
- dogma1138 6y agoYep, in general this is what the DoJ supposed to also be doing, it just doesn’t have a mandate that can be applied to all cases.