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Usually governments can't investigate crimes as such. There's usually a police investigation, but ultimately it's a court that compels people to do things. The
by impossiblefork 3y ago
Usually governments can't investigate crimes as such.
There's usually a police investigation, but ultimately it's a court that compels people to do things. The police can't issue subpoenas on their own.
A court is not the government. A court is the people (at least if it's an actual court, and not some fake pseudo-court).
- _visgean 3y ago> A court is the people Maybe in common law countries. In rest of the world the judiciary is simply semi-independent branch of power.
- BlueTemplar 3y agoSeparation of legislative / judiciary / executive powers. Speaking of, I realize that I never really thought (enough) about it, it also matters to which one of these the various espionage and law enforcement organizations report to !
- toast0 3y agoI think you're using the outside US English understanding of 'government' that means the current majority group in the legislature and typically that group picks the executive. That's a fine definition, but not the operative one in a discussion of the US NSA. In the US, the government is the apparatus of state power. That includes legislative, judicial, and executive. Including police, court, schools run by the state (we call them public schools, but that's another term that likely means something else to you), parks deparments, municipal services (if not private businesses), etc.