Warp wrote:
> legal courts weren't extremely cautious about lawsuits against the police

I think it's not that so much as it is all the steps leading up to the lawsuit.

If a crime is committed by a policeman, first the police have to arrest him, 
then the District Attorney (the government's prosecuting head lawyer) has to 
charge him with a crime, *then* you get to go to court. But the policeman 
works for the police, and the DA needs the police's cooperation to do his 
job, so that's usually where it gets stymied.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
  "How did he die?"   "He got shot in the hand."
     "That was fatal?"
          "He was holding a live grenade at the time."

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