Here's Welles discussing the Police, both local and international, from the Sketchbook series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crn_mPWd1HQ
Here are some interesting excerpts from a story today in The Economist:
A grand jury refusing to hand down an indictment is "an incredibly rare thing". In federal (rather than state) courts, grand juries in 2010 failed to indict in just 11 out of 162,000 cases. If anything, conservative legal scholars in recent years have worried that grand juries are too susceptible to indicting based on flimsy cases.
At the same time...While it is generally easy to get an indictment, it is extremely difficult to indict a police officer. This is especially true for homicide. While 410 "justifiable homicides" were reported by the FBI in 2012, there were virtually no indictments of police for killing people. FiveThirtyEight's Ben Casselman wonders whether the difference is based on jurors being more inclined to trust police; prosecutors being less inclined to make cases aggressively against police; or prosecutors being forced to bring weak cases against police, due to political pressure.
This is not even to mention the glaring issue of race. African-Americans have a radically different experience of interaction with police officers than white Americans do, and are much less likely to implicitly trust the testimony of officers accused of brutality or lawbreaking. Most white Americans do not understand this distrust, so minorities are often left with a sense that the legal system offers them no recourse.
"Nobody gets justice. People get only good luck or bad luck" - Orson Welles
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