<story><title>The United States needs to overhaul its law-enforcement system</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21636033-united-states-needs-overhaul-its-law-enforcement-system-americas-police-trial</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>moskie</author><text>Small complaint (about an otherwise very good article):&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Eric Garner ... guilty only of selling single cigarettes&lt;p&gt;The cops involved &lt;i&gt;suspected&lt;/i&gt; this, but I don&amp;#x27;t believe it&amp;#x27;s known that he is guilty of this. Especially in a legal sense: he did not live to see a trial.</text></comment>
<story><title>The United States needs to overhaul its law-enforcement system</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21636033-united-states-needs-overhaul-its-law-enforcement-system-americas-police-trial</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joesmo</author><text>How about also ending grand juries altogether (or at least in cases of potential homicide)? It&amp;#x27;s obvious that the people on the grand juries are not qualified to asses anything and it&amp;#x27;s an archaic system not employed by any other country (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_jury&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Grand_jury&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;In addition, the prosecutors&amp;#x27; powers need to be curtailed. Such crimes should always be charged, regardless of what the prosecutor wants. If there is doubt, bring in an outside prosecutor like the article suggests.</text></comment>