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>Grand juries are a safeguard for the accused. Do they work in practice? No. Grand Juries have an especially hard time finding anything wrong with police condu
by fnordfnordfnord 12y ago
>Grand juries are a safeguard for the accused. Do they work in practice? No.
Grand Juries have an especially hard time finding anything wrong with police conduct and are routinely used to "legitimize" questionable police activity.
I'm not ready to agree to eliminating them but it isn't hard to understand why someone might throw it out there as an idea.
- tptacek 12y agoWhy? So we can do away with the pretense?
- fnordfnordfnord 12y agoI suppose. "If it isn't helping, it's hurting..." something like that.