Less than 50 cases resulted in any professional sanction for the prosecutor “(Balko 2017). Due to the current callousness towards prosecutorial misconduct, new mechanisms must be put in place to control this behavior. As the statistics above illustrate, the current policies fail at deterring and punishing prosecutor misconduct. The punishments must be altered to change this behavior because their misconduct ultimately affects whether an individual does or does not become incarcerated. Alternately, a legitimate reform of prosecutor elections where prosecutors do not unopposed provides a platform for change in which the electorate can not only demand better behavior from their prosecutor but also to demand stronger prosecution for those prosecutors who commit
Less than 50 cases resulted in any professional sanction for the prosecutor “(Balko 2017). Due to the current callousness towards prosecutorial misconduct, new mechanisms must be put in place to control this behavior. As the statistics above illustrate, the current policies fail at deterring and punishing prosecutor misconduct. The punishments must be altered to change this behavior because their misconduct ultimately affects whether an individual does or does not become incarcerated. Alternately, a legitimate reform of prosecutor elections where prosecutors do not unopposed provides a platform for change in which the electorate can not only demand better behavior from their prosecutor but also to demand stronger prosecution for those prosecutors who commit