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Description of Break Up the Police:
For Backgound info see Primary Idea: Institutional Separation of Each Aspect of Criminal Enforcement: http://ideafun.titanpad.com/gW
To fix this we MUST systematically and institutionally break up the police into at least two separate branches. 1) Regular real time policing to keep the peace (pretty obvious) 2) post-crime documenters for facts and evidence (neutral unbiased documentation). Additionally there are at least two additional branches that should be broken up as well. One that would include active investigators for post-crime Research and Theories (biased investigators who theorize on what may have happened regardless of evidence), as well as active pre-crime investigations (ex. "under cover" operations), and lastly we also encourage peace officers or citizen officers who's role is to educate and support citizens rights and represent citizens on the streets (can be directly involved with mediating between the police and citizens). If every police car had an unbiased documenter and a citizens officer there would be a lot more balance in how police conducted their activities, not just day to day, but how evidence would be gathered and presented to judges and jury. Also this would completely change the relationship between the prosecution and the police, as they would no longer be dependent on everyday police officers who enforce the law to also document evidence or research/investigate/theorize how to catch bad guys post-crime.
Just to make sure this point is completely clear, lets look at the example of entrapment. Currently in our legal system you can have an undercover police officer(s), or agent, who can lead a citizen on to encourage them to commit a crime. Then the same police officer(s) legally investigate both pre-crime, and post crime, as well as get to document all of the evidence of the crime. To top it all off, the police and only the police get to present all the evidence to the prosecution, and the prosecution can't question any of it, or risk relationship problems on other cases. There is just way to much power in a single branch of government to be able to entrap and try a citizen with no checks and balances. The court and judges believe the police, because there is no alternative, and next thing you know the person who was entrapped is in jail, and there is nothing you can do about it. The whole idea that the same person who entrapped you, is also the same person who charges you with a crime, and then is the same person who collects all the evidence against you is an obvious conflict of interest.
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