Let’s Put an End to Prosecutorial Immunity (2018)

Re:Let’s Put an End to Prosecutorial Immunity (2018) by spaetzleesser on Sunday October 24, 2021 @06:31PM (#28982540)

In my view if a prosecutor, judge or cop breaks intentionally or knowingly break the rules, it should be treated as a very serious crime and they should be punished harshly. These people are trusted by society with enormous power over people's lives and their behavior should have the highest integrity. Once people have doubts about the legal system, a civilized society can't really work properly.

A vast majority of the workers in the legal system are doing their job with honesty. It should also be in their interest to get rid of corrupt people.

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Re:Let’s Put an End to Prosecutorial Immunity (2018) by giantg2 on Sunday October 24, 2021 @09:39PM (#28983662)

"A vast majority of the workers in the legal system are doing their job with honesty. It should also be in their interest to get rid of corrupt people."

On thing this misses is that many people violating rights might just be incompetent. Then the corrupt ones use incompetence as a defense.

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Re:Let’s Put an End to Prosecutorial Immunity (2018) by throwawayboise on Sunday October 24, 2021 @09:00PM (#28983464)

Be careful what you ask for though. Cops are given a lot of discretion about whether to make an arrest, issue a citation, or a warning, or none of the above.

If you start demanding that they never "break the rules" it could have outcomes you didn't want.

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Re:Let’s Put an End to Prosecutorial Immunity (2018) by pauldenton on Sunday October 24, 2021 @10:35PM (#28983974)

We've already got selective enforcement. Compare how the protestors who stormed the capital during the Kavanaugh hearings got treated compared to those on January 6. look how anti lockdown protestors were treated compared to BLM protestors. If you want a world with selective enforcement you're living in it.

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Re:Let’s Put an End to Prosecutorial Immunity (2018) by Buttons840 on Sunday October 24, 2021 @09:19PM (#28983552)

What kind of comment is this? You seem to argue that it's OK to "break the rules" sometimes, and your reasoning for this is something vague about unwanted outcomes? I don't see any substance to this comment. If you have an argument you need to make it more explicit.

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Re:Let’s Put an End to Prosecutorial Immunity (2018) by 3finmunchousen on Sunday October 24, 2021 @10:40PM (#28983991)

I think he's implying that a citizen might be the beneficiary of police not strictly enforcing rules. For example, being issued a warning rather than a citation.

I personally don't find that to be an especially compelling argument to avoid the use of body cameras.

If one frequently finds themselves subject to lax enforcement of laws to their never that points to a systemic issue in the law or it's enforcement

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