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> Why is there seemingly no accountability going on?

Warrants are petitioned for by district attorneys, who are elected officials. In principle, the means of redress for inappropriately pushing for warrants and improperly using prosecutorial discretion is at the ballot box.

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That's an unworkable solution if much of the electorate actually enjoys the prosecution using such frivolous warrants to target the "wrong" kinds of people.

Or an extremely workable solution - if a small organization cared enough to keep long-term records of DA decisions, and even a modest % of the voters cared about good vs. bad district attorneys on election day (to vote based on that small organization's ratings of elected DA's).

The NRA (Nat'l Rifle Association) very successfully used that playbook for decades. During which much of the electorate supposedly wanted much stricter gun control.

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