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Local prosecutor who wants to avoid bringing homicide charge against police officers. caleb from your perspective, what has changed in that dynamic in the last three decades? i teal you one thing that has changed is that every major department in the country, this is district attorney and police departments as well have very robust internal affairs divisions. and most district attorney s office including here in l.a. haare devoted solely to prosecuting police officers. so attorney generals recognize this problem, the problem that mr. stamper refers to is certainly real. and the way to get around it is to insulate a group of senior professional civil servants. that is the prosecutors in these specialized units who have their own investigators. they don t anything to the police department. they have long-time service. ....
Exists. and so i think you re going to need a special prosecutor when there are officer-related shootings and deaths. just no question about it. you can t ask police departments to self-report, and quite frankly, you shouldn t have prosecutors that have these kinds of relationships with officers to present cases against them. it just doesn t work. and sunny, quickly, if you could, just a quick question, police departments have internal affairs divisions. that s right. they do. and they should, right? i mean, you shouldn t have officers investigating other officers. i, quite frankly, think that was a significant problem with the ferguson investigation. because we know that the ferguson chief of police was very involved with leaking the surveillance video, very involved on a day-to-day basis with that initial part of the investigation. so internal affairs officers are generally removed from the general population of police officers and they are situated ....