Every bannor ad on a webpage is one ad. A news article can have 12 or more.

Our system of policing in the US self-selects for bullies and tyrants and weeds out those who would seek justice over all, even if it meant going after their own.

I would love to ask a genuinely good cop why they feel the need to work exponentially harder to prove their moral character than, say, EMS or firefighters, clawing their public image from the rot of all the bad apples.

I would also ask them, bluntly, if they would ever blow the whistle on gross dereliction of honor from within their own ranks.

Ah, you’re close to the point. Their job is to collect paychecks from their benefactors while getting as close to those poll values as possible for the greatest amount of voters. Those priorities should be exactly flipped, and that is why we have Trump and Co.

To be clear, an indictment is a document that kicks of the lawsuit process: “I acuse you of breaking X laws because I can present Y evidence to a judge proving you did that. Therefore, I sue you. Signed, law firm.”

Because it is? Criminal suits are also lawsuits. The indictment is the first step in that process. Even in cases where there is no clear individual plantiff, the governing body (city, state, or nation) fills that role.

All cases are brought before and served by a judge, and in this case there would be no jury, just a review, on legal precident, whether the charges put forth by the indictment are accurate or relevant to the legal code’s stated therein.

Essentially, this is a lawsuit, just one based on precedent, which really is vibe-based and heavily depends on the judge assigned to the case. When there is no precedent or the legal justification is vague, a jury is also assigned.