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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
This sort of arrangement happens all over the place, only the "jurisdiction" (that's a weird way of referring to the way that prosecutors divide cases within their offices) turns on the type of conduct, not the characteristic of the defendant. Here, Adder will tell you that the conduct is abuse of police power or some such thing, and that it would benefit from prosecutors who focus on this special area, and Bob's your uncle.
Of course, Adder is trying to tell you that he thinks that prosecutors have an institutional relationship with police that creates systemic problems akin to a conflict of interest, even if it doesn't fall within the requirements for that rubric as the law currently stands. That's the starting point for this conversation, not an incidental point of law.
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I don't think Adder or anyone else is really talking about an "all-cops, cops-only" prosecutor. He's talking about the type of crime -- violence by a cop while on duty and under the cover of his authority. If an off-duty cop is arrested for robbery or domestic abuse, that's different.
