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[–]CCwind 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nobody cares if you're guilty or innocent, the prosecutor's job is to convict you.

The elephant in the room is that focus on reform should be prosecutors far more than police. As recent examples have shown, prosecutors have immense power with almost no accountability. Judges can't question charging decisions and good luck suing a prosecutor for even blatant misconduct. But it is the prosecutors that fail to hold police accountable, and allow the abusive cops to stay on the streets. Electing reform prosecutors tends to result in people like Kim Foxx abusing their power in the other direction. Weakening the immunity of prosecutors is how you get real change and solutions, but you won't hear anything about that in most of these protests.