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Only a prosecutor can bring charges against the police. How do you think the prosecutor's office is going to get cases if it antagonizes the police that supply
by kingcharles 5y ago
Only a prosecutor can bring charges against the police. How do you think the prosecutor's office is going to get cases if it antagonizes the police that supply them?
- Buttons840 5y agoWe should have another elected official responsible for bringing charges against police, separate from the prosecutors.
- worik 5y agoWe have that in Aotearoa. I thing England does too. It is a help, better than the police investigating themselves. But class issues really come into play. The investigators are all lawyers and have never lived the sort of life where they are bullied by the police, and they have no idea of the dynamics. We can always do better, in this case we are doing better than we were but it is still quite bad
- jjtheblunt 5y agoin the US that's the District Attorney or Attorney General, i think, but forget which is which.
- kingcharles 5y agoDistrict Attorney is the local prosecutor. Attorney General is the state prosecutor, and the boss of the DA.
- geoduck14 5y agoThe police don't support the DA
- giraffe_lady 5y agoI don't know what meaning "support" is carrying here so it's hard to mount a clear defense. But they work closely together, and each's work depends, to some extent, on the other. So they each have certain incentives, which lead them to generally act in certain ways towards each other. I am comfortable calling that support? Could you suggest another concise, easily understood alternative term, if you have one in mind?