To a very large extent, this is a country in which its governance is primarily run by lawyers, of which, to wit, there is a distinct oversupply of lawyers that become politicians and therefore are part and parcel of the legislative process, as well as the fact that it is the prosecutors, virtually without any meaningful oversight by an independent consortium of the people, that decide how the law will or will not be applied in a given incidence. This thus signifies, that prosecutors, who are supposed to seek justice and have so equally applied, and to do such without favoritism, are pretty much free to do whatever that they so desire to do, and to therefore respond only to those that they deem worth responding to.
In America, justice is seldom equally and fairly applied and it is virtually never impartial, of which, in truth, the main reason for this, lies at the feet of all the prosecutors that are not transparent, that are not consistent, that are not true to the law, and that do not feel the obligation that they need to justify what they so do or don’t do, while performing their job on behalf of the people. It really isn’t conceivable for the people to have respect for the law, when the entity that is supposed to demonstrate the most respect for the law, doesn’t actually do so.
Prosecutors should have some serious degree of public accountability, which certainly is not possible when so much of what they say and do, is secreted away from the public purview, for whatever reason given, legit or not. The prosecutorial office should never be in practice, a fiefdom. When it is, that provides way too much power residing in the hands of a small number of prosecutors, who even with the best of intentions, are going to be more than tempted, to address their own personal agendas, as well as to often make “nice” to particular power structures of their choosing that they favor or perhaps that they answer to, all at the expense of those that are on the outside and without fair view of what is really going on, inside.
Whenever laws are unequally applied, then what so happens, has essentially been left at the discretion of the prosecutor, with no one else having a meaningful say, of which, all of this is accomplished without the general public having enough visibility to know what is really going on, as well as the people not having any recourse to the decisions so made; of which, such justice being rendered, is seldom going to be just, but rather that which purports to be justice will be in reality, far too often, arbitrary, discriminatory, and irresponsible.
The only possible answer to curtail all of this arbitrary power that currently resides in the hands of the prosecutor, is for far more openness and far less opaqueness to be the norm within that domain, along with their being a much higher degree of oversight of what prosecutors are doing, by an independent consortium of those that are familiar with the intricacies of the justice system, and therefore far less easy to be fooled or to be misdirected. For a certainty, anytime, someone important in power is being carefully watched, society will find, at a minimum, that at least their excesses, if nothing else, will remain in check.