> Law enforcement needs to be forcibly rebuilt by civilian led institutions embedded into their communities in partnership with the plethora of organizations of

> Law enforcement needs to be forcibly rebuilt by civilian led institutions embedded into their communities in partnership with the plethora of organizations offering a cornucopia of types of support. Law enforcement agencies are civilian institutions. The only non-civilian entities in the United States are the uniformed service branches of the Department of Defense and the state National Guard units. This isn’t minor grammatical nit-picking, and is central to the point I was making: police officers are civil servants. They should be held to account under the civil and criminal code the rest of us have to abide by when they commit wrong-doing. We should not carve out exceptions for them, real or imagined [0], that the rest of us do not enjoy. That said, if you don’t believe we can amend one law and appoint a special prosecutors office, what makes you think we can successfully rebuild these institutions from the ground up? 0 - You can read the federal solicitation to commit a crime of violence statute, 18 USC § 373, for yourself and decide if the statute permits this kind of behavior from the FBI. I’d argue such behavior as in the OP violates the statute already, but I have no doubt the courts have accepted all manner of excuses regarding ‘intent’ that would not be given the time of day with a non-government defendant. In any case, I stand with my original point: amend these laws to make absolutely clear this conduct is illegal. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/373 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/373