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There's practical solutions. If a cop did something bad, it shouldn't be a prosecutor from the same city who they may have to work with one day on a case, it sh
by morkalork 3y ago
There's practical solutions. If a cop did something bad, it shouldn't be a prosecutor from the same city who they may have to work with one day on a case, it should be one from out of town. And if you say a cop won't cooperate with any prosecutor, then well too bad, that's part of the job and if they don't like it, they should find another career.
- giraffe_lady 3y agoCops and prosecutors are coworkers whose jobs fundamentally depend on cooperation from the other. They aren't and won't ever be adversaries. A given prosecutor having a personal working relationship with a given cop certainly makes this worse but it isn't the core constraint. An out of town prosecutor will still consider police generally to be allied peers. They still have to go home afterwards and have a working relationship with the local police, who certainly consider the cops a few towns over to be part of the same family and will consider prosecution of one of them an affront to all.
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- landemva 3y agoProsecutors can ask a grand jury of citizens to investigate and indict. Then the prosecutor is the attorney for the State doing the attorney stuff in court. Grand juries are powerful, and thus can also go off the rails led by prosecutor manipulation.