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Re:Arizona moves to ban recording video of police by kingcharles on Saturday March 19, 2022 @05:27PM (#30737726)
Only a prosecutor can bring charges against the police. How do you think the prosecutor's office is going to get cases if it antagonizes the police that supply them?
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Re:Arizona moves to ban recording video of police by Buttons840 on Saturday March 19, 2022 @06:06PM (#30737977)
We should have another elected official responsible for bringing charges against police, separate from the prosecutors.
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Re:Arizona moves to ban recording video of police by worik on Saturday March 19, 2022 @06:15PM (#30738033)
We have that in Aotearoa. I thing England does too.

It is a help, better than the police investigating themselves.

But class issues really come into play. The investigators are all lawyers and have never lived the sort of life where they are bullied by the police, and they have no idea of the dynamics.

We can always do better, in this case we are doing better than we were but it is still quite bad

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Re:Arizona moves to ban recording video of police by jjtheblunt on Saturday March 19, 2022 @06:24PM (#30738104)
in the US that's the District Attorney or Attorney General, i think, but forget which is which.
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Re:Arizona moves to ban recording video of police by kingcharles on Monday March 21, 2022 @07:26PM (#30761035)
District Attorney is the local prosecutor.

Attorney General is the state prosecutor, and the boss of the DA.

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Re:Arizona moves to ban recording video of police by geoduck14 on Saturday March 19, 2022 @06:09PM (#30738000)
The police don't support the DA
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Re:Arizona moves to ban recording video of police by giraffe_lady on Saturday March 19, 2022 @06:23PM (#30738090)
I don't know what meaning "support" is carrying here so it's hard to mount a clear defense.

But they work closely together, and each's work depends, to some extent, on the other. So they each have certain incentives, which lead them to generally act in certain ways towards each other.

I am comfortable calling that support? Could you suggest another concise, easily understood alternative term, if you have one in mind?

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